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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).


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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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Agent Access Control: JIT(Just-in-time) JEA( Just-enough-access)

In regulated domains like Talent (HR systems) or Finance (ERP, banking platforms), granting AI agents standing access to sensitive data and systems poses significant security and compliance risks. Just‑In‑Time (JIT) and Just‑Enough‑Access (JEA) ar...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Future consideration

[AI Agent Routing] Presenting multiple routing options to users

We have projects leveraging tens of assistants for user request handling. No matter how those assistants are grouped and descriptions are well written, there will always be situation where we'll need more disambiguation. The idea that we are propo...
5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Provide connector to Process Mining to analyse working patterns

With much of the actual process being decided by the WO end user, there is a need to understand what skills users use in sequence and to understand if new skills, APIs or workflows etc can be improved even further. Make it possible to pass the WO ...
about 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Future consideration

Support SOAP requests

Expand the custom skill compatibilty to SOAP protocal in addition to OpenAPI to support a broader set of apps & use-cases.
10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Allow sorting and/or filter at /configure/skills/manage

To produce the scenario: I just uploaded a json file and this allowed me to select and import 6 new skills Pain point/Friction in using the interface: Difficult to search and publish - user cannot recall the name of skills they just imported in an...
almost 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

In a flow, allow searching of the output values from previous tool while mapping to the next tool

Search ability of output value to pass in next skill flow while building composite flow. E.g. below, get all cases returns more than 100 values. To pass one specific value, we have to scroll though the list and select right one. It would be nice t...
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Future consideration

Extend the session timeout so Assistant can usefully support FB Messenger and other asynch channels experience.

When Watson Assistant works with Facebook Messenger the session times out after 60 minutes. 60 mins may be acceptable for a web session which is a synchronous experience . It is far too little time for an asynch messaging channel like FB Messenger...
over 3 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 5 Future consideration

Integration of Open API Builder into Watson Orchestrate Skill Catalog

Currently, there are plans to introduce an open API builder in Watson Orchestrate for creating and designing open APIs or skills. In addition to that I propose the integration of the OpenAPI builder into the skill catalog. This addition, alongside...
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Future consideration

I want to filter the tools created by me

There is no way I can filter the skills tools created by me today in the builder profile.
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Future consideration

Translate WatsonX Orchestrate UI for Brazilian Portuguese

We need WatsonX Orchestrate UI translation for Brazilian Portuguese to better serve our customers.
10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration