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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Audio response embedded in wxa/wxo

wxA/ AI Assistant Builder has an audio response feature (see attached file), however when using this with a live phone conversation, there is some latency given that the audio file needs to be hosted outside of wxo/ wxa. IBM should host typing or ...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Applying NLU enrichments on the question

Many times, customer assumes that WDS will apply enrichments to the question also and use that to help in search. This is not currently the case. WDS need to have a way where by default (or by config) NLU enrichments can be applied on the question...
about 9 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Be omnipresent alongside external tools: UI automation / contextual awareness

UI automation and contextual awareness - to navigate and collaborate with third party applications [continuation of https://watson-orchestrate.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/LSABER-I-985 which provides the possibility to embed wxO as a plug-in into a browner...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Under review

Replace the generic "thinking" messages from the LLM with custom animations/messages.

This is intended to allow more customization to implement corporate appearance and performance requirements. When a question is passed into the LLM - and each LLM appears to send back different responses - it passes back some 'keepalive' type mess...
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Needs more information

ADDI - Program Flow and Flow Chart Updates For Sections in COBOL

ADDI is designed to pick up COBOL Paragraphs. The vendor uses the word SECTION for the COBOL paragraphs. This results in displaying the words FIRST_SENTENCES in the paragraph name in the Program Flow and Flow Chart reports. Example: Code = C100-PR...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Audio chunk size limit error

For errors like the following:CWSMR0048E: The connection to the Watson Speech to Text service closed with the following error: 3 INVALID_ARGUMENT: Audio chunk can be of a maximum of 25600 bytes. Received audio of 40480 bytes VGW needs to have a ch...
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Data masking for ingested WDS documents

We have a client request to provide capability to mask sensitive data from ingested documents. This is to serve 2 purposes; i) general company wide data privacy requirements, ii) masking sensitive data from developers If a function was available t...
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Need to return Normalized entity values from WKS custom model

Applying annotation to documents ingested into WDS using a custom WKS model allows the client to tag content based on their own vocabulary/domain. Currently WKS model can't be configured with the normalizeEntities flag (like Alchemy used to be) an...
almost 9 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Expanding Explain feature to do batch and inserting directly in Confluence templates

The customer would like a few additional features added to the Explain feature. First, they would like batch processing, where they can select several COBOL programs and allow them to process them to gather the explanation all at once and the poss...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Ordering Impact Analysis Report

The Impact Analysis Report answer I get from this option is a poorly organized document that does not allow for analyzing by element. In other words, it does not permit analyzing a program, a JCL, etc., since it is organized by variable and file n...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review