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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Assume IAM Role instead of using IAM Access Key and Secret (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, follows a strict security policy based on the principle of least privilege, which requires all authentication and authorization operations to be carried out through IAM Roles, rather than using IAM Access Key and Secret pairs, wh...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Make embedded chat context variables directly available to tools

Our customer is reference customer who is implementing an agentic AI assistant for university students and staff. They intend to embed the wxo webchat on their website, which will need to capture the jwt token from the web frontend once a student/...
11 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

First-class way to represent externally executed enterprise actions

Enterprise agents often should not execute directly. They should decide, then delegate execution to governed systems like BAW, Decisions, ITSM, ERP, or partner platforms. This could be enabled by supporting an delegated/no-op tool concept which th...
5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Enable WatsonX Code Assistant (WCA) to support MCP servers

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an emerging open standard that enables AI assistants to retrieve structured, contextual information from external sources—such as CMSs, bug trackers (e.g., Jira, Confluence), database schemas, UI design tools (e.g.,...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 5 Future consideration

Data gate instance be able to write on Object Storage which require security certificate (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client wants to adopt an Object Storage (S3) technology with the use of security certificate to store data synchronized by Data Gate for watsonx (DG4WX). Currently the DG4WX doesn't support security certificate to access, read and write data o...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

List Dialog Assistant as Tool

This means that the existing dialog assistant (built on Dialogues) can be integrated into a new user interface — either as: a tool (a callable component used by another agent), or an independent agent In practice, this allows legacy Dialogues-base...
12 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Under review

Native Version Control Capabilities for AI Agents

Introduce native version control capabilities for AI agents in watsonx Orchestrate. This feature would allow users to create, tag, and manage multiple versions of the same agent—enabling safer deployments, rollback to previous versions, and tracea...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Planned for future release

Add Traditional Chinese support for WCA4Z Explanation and Chat features.

Currently, WCA4Z does not support Traditional Chinese in its Explanation and Chat functionalities, which has become a significant barrier for adoption among clients in Taiwan. Many customers have expressed that Traditional Chinese resources are cr...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 11 Under review

Enhance User Feedback Export with Categories and Comments

Currently, users can provide detailed feedback when selecting Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down by choosing a category and entering optional comments. However, these details are not available in the exported feedback report.  Requested Enhancement: &n...
16 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

View and Export Unique Users from Analytics

In the Annie instance Analytics dashboard, we can see the "Unique Users" metric (for example, 23 unique users in the selected timeframe). However, there is currently no option to view the list of these users or export the data.  We would like...
16 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted