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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Enable SAP SuccessFactors Report Center integration so managers can retrieve, analyze, and interact with HR reports

Currently, Orchestrate supports SAP SuccessFactors via OData APIs and domain agents for HR tasks, but it does not provide native access to Report Center reports. This enhancement would: Connect Orchestrate to SuccessFactors Report Center (via ODat...
9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Under review

IBM connectors for external data sources should allow customizing which content type gets crawled

IBM connectors for external data sources should allow customizing which content type gets crawled. As an example, for the IBM Watson Discovery SharePoint connector allow Customer to configure which content type gets crawled. Customer use case is t...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Stateful APIs to utilize agent/s inside my apps

Stateful APIs to communicate with orchestrate as headless service to be able to design my own interface or utilize agent/s inside my apps the way I like.
10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Functionality already exists

Enable native uploading and processing of .log files to allow users and teams to submit application and system logs directly for analysis, troubleshooting, and insights.

.log files are a primary source of truth for understanding system behavior, failures, and performance issues, yet they are often excluded or require manual workarounds (zipping, renaming, copy-pasting). By supporting direct .log file uploads, user...
10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Standardize Teams integration behaviour

The behaviour of Watsonx Assistant differs from Web to the Teams integration, while we would expect it to have the same behaviour (i.e. replicate what we have during preview). The support case (CS4233476) linked show the issue details, which is su...
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

GenAI assistant to talk with ADDI

It would be great if we could interact with all the data that ADDI has using a GenAI like assistant, so It would be like asking the most senior developer/product owner about all the components that addi discovers.

Private context variables

Watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) Agentic currently supports context variables for collecting and passing information between agents and tools. The content of the context variables will show up in the trace lots. That is not accepable for some of the cont...
10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Securely passing context from my web application to Agent

Watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) Agentic currently has a single select feature, however, the usability of the selection list diminishes as the list grows in length. Some customers are dealing with lists that are hundreds or thousands of items long, so a ...
10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Not under consideration

VSAM insight AI agent on IBM Z

Client expressed interest in a VSAM agent (similar to Db2 Agent that is in-plan) for watsonx assistant for Z. Client indicated that VSAM databases on IBM Z holds critical business data, yet extracting actionable insights from them remains a challe...
10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

AI Agent for Stress test on IBM Z

At Fall 2025 AI Council, multiple clients indicated that an AI agent for Stress test on Z will be vital to their organization. Donna Dillenberger had indicated that IBM Research is playing with this item, so this requirement should be directed to ...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review