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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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  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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wxO Chat interface should be able to display users image, icon or initials

When a user logs into wxO and interacts with the AI Agent, it would be really nice if the users icon/image/initials were shown. Today it is possible for the agent builder to create a custom logo /icon for the agent. I propose that we enable a simi...
12 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Prevent network egress at runtime for any authentication endpoint not on the tenant allow list

In industries with elevated compliance & security requirements there is often a need for multi-layered security. Currently Orchestrate's security model makes the assumption that the builder role is fully trusted. What happens if a builder thro...
12 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Future consideration

Agent should ask clarifying questions when needed

Problem statement In a knowledge / RAG scenario, not all questions from Cassie have sufficient information for the Agent to be able to give a precise answer.In some cases, the Agent needs more information in order to get the exact answer. The agen...
12 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 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...
12 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Enable QREP Event Publishing MQ TOPIC to support the current BAU CSV message format. Not just XML format.

Unable to use CSV file message format. Limited TOPIC choices to use.

Admins can turn on network restrictions for tools to connect in UI

Some organizations want to restrict the IP addresses that should be allowed to connect. This capability is just being introduced into the CLI, but isn't managed or accessible in the UI. Use cases: Org wants to limit the network connections that or...
13 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Future consideration

Preserve Existing Relationships During Bulk Relationship Loads-No98

When performing bulk relationship imports using relationship templates in IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC), the system should provide an option to add new relationships without overwriting or deleting existing ones. This capability would allow metadata...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Role‑Based Read‑Only Metadata Attributes-No97

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } Provide the capability to define certain metadata attributes as read‑only by default, such as Criticality Rating and PRP ...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Prevent overwriting or deleting existing enrichments when re‑importing metadata-No95

We need to enable notifications or have a validation mechanisms, or controls when re‑importing metadata to prevent overwriting or deleting existing enrichments.
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

DataSet - Set the aggregation operator for measure computed with count distinct to the aggregation method set in properties

1. Create a dataset with one of the column defined as count(distinct ...) Modify the item in Query and set aggregation as Total 2. Refresh the dataset 3. Create a dashboard As shown in the screen capture, aggregation method is set to Minimum Agreg...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Submitted