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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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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...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Planned for future release

Better UI / bigger windows for selecting render variables, conditional styles etc

There are numerous windows within the report editor that feel like you are looking through a letter box to try and choose a value. A couple of examples are the Render Variable and Select Existing Conditional style windows. The render variable wind...
30 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

PII detection for labeling or automated scrubbing

Within the Flows, there are several critical functionalities we require but lack clear guidance on how to implement: Identifying Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in field text is vital for compliance and security purposes to have some cal...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 4 Planned for future release

Streamlined status indicators that replace verbose reasoning steps for those who prefer a cleaner, more focused chat environment

Refined Reasoning Steps Display Issue: Raw reasoning steps expose system internals that overwhelm users with technical details and create poor UX Solution: Replace verbose reasoning with streamlined status indicators:• Show simple, real-time statu...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Planned for future release

3rd-party agent authentication/authorization

WxO has no mechanism to keep authentication smoothly with outside agents. It is applicable to both Talent & Finance use cases: Currently on Talent side we have the following issue: We build our agent using LangGraph & Langchain outside W...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 4 Planned for future release

add the ability to change a variables name within the expression editor

Within a query within a report the expression editor has a Name and Expression Definition fields. This allows you to enter a name for an expression and also the expression within a single window. Contrast that with the expression editor for a repo...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Native integration with AWS Lake Formation and Glue Data Catalog (watsonx.data SaaS on AWS)

watsonx.data is being evaluated as a strategic query engine in AWS-based Data Mesh architectures, where governance is managed through AWS Lake Formation and metadata is stored in the Glue Data Catalog. Currently, watsonx.data does not natively sup...
5 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Planned for future release
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Bursting reports with email notification

Would like the ability to burst PAW reports as PDF.Would like the ability to burst PAX reports as Excel Slice, Excel Snap-shot or PDF.eg. TM1 Perspectives Print Report featureWith added email notifications and ability to email burst reports by rea...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 10 Planned for future release

Users to Upload files in Action Button in PAW

In V12.5.0, security changes were made so that non-admin users are no longer able to upload CSV/Files in an action button within the PAW interface. Now only admin users can upload files with a PAW action button. Within out region, we have several ...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

ability to set default value for email delivery method.

When users run a report using ‘Run as’ and select email as delivery method there will be two options they can select one or both.1. Include link 2. Attach output Prior CA 11.1.7FP4 the default selection was option 1: Include link. IBM made an enha...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Planned for future release