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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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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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Enable Mermaid Diagram Rendering in Chat Interface

We request the enhancement of IBM watsonx Orchestrate (WXO) chat interface to support native rendering of Mermaid diagrams directly within chat responses. Currently, when Mermaid syntax is included in responses, it is displayed as plain text, requ...
about 20 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Implement version numbering for a.o. Views, Workflows, Calculations

When transferring versions of the objects mentioned, it is important to be able to keep track of the version you are working on and want to deploy (DEV --> UAT --> PROD) and to allow tracking of the versions IN OpenPages and not outside Open...
2 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Under review

Enable Watsonx Orchestrate to store user-uploaded files in customer-owned Cloud Object Storage (COS) buckets with strict logical segregation by user or tenant.

EY requires full control over file storage to meet internal compliance and data sovereignty standards. Currently, user-uploaded files are stored in shared IBM-managed COS environments, which raises concerns around data ownership, isolation, and go...
2 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Enable administrators to strictly control and allowlist which knowledge sources (e.g., vector stores, file uploads, web search, third-party connectors) agents can use for grounding.

Enterprises like EY require the ability to tightly govern what data sources agents can access for grounding responses to ensure compliance, security, and data residency requirements. Currently, Watsonx Orchestrate allows agents to connect to vario...
2 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Implement rate limiting

wxO is used externally in B2C mode, asking for rate limiting for several aspects : - Security, to avoid a DoS attack and wxO to become less responsive,- Consumption, avoiding consuming too many token, and having a too long conversation to redirect...
9 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Add “Includes any of the selected users/area” filtering option

When applying filters, it would be highly beneficial to also have an option like “includes any of the selected users/area.” This enhancement would provide more flexibility in filtering, for ex for fields such as Action Owner. Ideally, this option ...
10 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Under review

Four configuration options are missing in Audio Settings panel

The current Audio Settings in WatsonX Orchestrate lack the granularity required for production-grade voice channel deployments. During our ongoing PoC with a banking client (SIP channel), we identified four missing configuration options that are n...
21 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

NVIDIA B300 GPU support on-premises

We are preparing an on-prem deployment proposal including watsonx.ai, watsonx.orchestrate (WXO), and watsonx.data for a major financial-sector customer. The customer plans to deploy their AI infrastructure on NVIDIA B300 (Blackwell Ultra) GPUs. Ho...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Add UI Support in Db2 Administration Foundation to Register New Db2 Accelerators

This enhancement would be extremely useful because, throughout the lifecycle of the Db2 Accelerator product, it is essential to be able to add new accelerators in a simple and user‑friendly way. Additionally, Db2 Administration Foundation is the o...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS Under review

How to deploy WXO on edge device or an SNO with minimal hardware footprint?

We are using IBM Watsonx Orchestrate (wxo) for many defense and aerospace and industrial clients. For most of them edge solution is super important. However with current design wxo needs openshift and especially an ODF with an enormous hardware fo...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review