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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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Request for implementation of watsonx Orchestrate's IP filtering function

Orchestrate is an important service in promoting automation in the enterprise. However, watsonx Orchestrate on IBM Cloud does not support Ip filtering, so its security features are insufficient for enterprise use. I urgently need you to support Ip...
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Delivered

Ability to pass inputs and access outputs of Conversational Skills on Assistant Builder

When an action is created from Skills on Assistant builder on Orchestrate, that action should be able to take inputs from the assistant context. With this we can pass information available on Watson Assistant context to the skills while invoking t...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 8 Delivered

Expose watsonx Orchestrate non-interactive automations as a service

Our clients can do most of their work through watsonx Orchestrate Chat, interactively accomplishing their day-to-day tasks. Sometimes, they need to re-use a logic created as watsonx Orchestrate Automation and would like to call that logic from an ...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 9 Delivered

Conditional flow for Skills

I would like to add a skill based on condition. For example, the output from Skill-1 = YES I need to call Skill-2 ; If NO then I need to call Skill-3
almost 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 6 Delivered

Ability to pass input parameters and retrieve output results from Skill Based Actions called from within Assistant Builder

Skill Based Actions can currently only be used for atomic self contained skill executions from an assistant built in the assistant builder and hosted externally to the Orchestrate UI. The inability to pass parameters and retrieve Skill results is ...
5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Delivered

As a developer (WO builder role) I need to be able to debug my work e.g. by access to logs / traces so that I am able to overcome errors

As a WO builder when working with the SDK I need to use a development IDE / Text editor to work with YAML / JSON files to add the needed Watson Orchestrate skill annotations and to generate the package structure to be able to control my desired Sk...
about 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Delivered

Support all tool interactions in 3rd-party channels

Third party channels do not support form interactions and most pre-built skills tools + all skill flows/workflows are form-based today.
9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Delivered

Role based access control to restrict some skills execution for particular users or user roles

As a Builder or admin of the tenant I should have ability to control who can invoke a specific skills, fine grained access control for skill execution.
almost 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Delivered

Add a community supported skills market place of skills

To further scale out the reach of skills and to promote reuse and ecosystem collaboration, a skills repository driven by the community would be beneficial. It would fill the gap between IBM supported (prepackaged) skills and creating your own. It ...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Delivered

Allow adding multiple skills at the same time

I have to add one skill at a time and then have to sit there while I get an error message "server is busy processing the previous request". This forces me to sit there and then wait 10 seconds until i can add another - bad user experience. Instead...
almost 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Delivered