Skip to Main Content
IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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


Status Delivered
Workspace watsonx Assistant
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 2, 2019

Allow custom attributes to be added to any field in json editor (image, button, option)

As in previous versions we had to enter our own json objects for images, buttons and so on. With the newer UI editor for such fields it makes them easier to use for non technical people, but for developers it’s much more difficult to add custom properties to e.g buttons. Say I want to add a link when one presses a button or image (this isn’t allowed). I now have to add a custom object in the output that is then passed from the SDKs into an object/map called “user_defined”. Also if I add custom objects into a node’s output response and that node jumps to include another nodes message. Then I currently cannot know which nodes answer that custom object belongs to. This is a huge pain.

Why can’t I just enter custom variables into a generic type like buttons?

So why not allow us to specify custom json objects/arrays in the same way as with the existing generics so they are behaving as with the UI genetics?