Skip to Main Content
Shape the future of IBM watsonx Orchestrate


This is the IBM Automation portal for IBM watsonx Orchestrate. 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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:

Search existing ideas

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,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Learn more about IBM watsonx Orchestrate - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the product.

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.

ADD IDEA

All ideas

Showing 20

Updating skill flow friction

From builder perspective: Each time we update a skill and re-upload the JSON to wxo, if that skill is being used in a skill flow, I need to delete the skill from the skill flow, upload the JSON, publish it to the catalog, re-add to my skill catalo...
2 months ago in  0 Delivered

Enable masking of confidential customer information for actions called from dialog

Actions called from dialog do not mask confidential customer information, nor webhook credentials and parameters. This is a serious limitation and will prevent us from implementing actions in our production environment.
2 months ago in  1 Delivered

Dynamic schema and form

Use cases to consider:1. User selects USA v Canada and gets different options after (postal code v zip code) 2. User is accessing excel online and will have different sets of columns based on what excel they select 3. User is accessing Jira and ba...
3 months ago in  0 Delivered

Enhanced Data Flow with NBA in Import and Skill Flows

I suggest improving the data flow within Watson Orchestrate by addressing the current limitation where data is not seamlessly passed between skills when utilizing Next Best Action (NBA) in both import and skill flows. Enhancing this capability wou...
3 months ago in  4 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.
7 months ago in  0 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...
8 months ago in  1 Delivered

Executing skills without user action

There could be a need to execute certain skills without needing the user to click on 'Apply'. Example could be I have a custom skill to upload a file and some input values. Data extracted from the file needs to be uploaded to Box or sent via email...
9 months ago in  0 Delivered

Separate chat interface from setting up of composite skills

Having clickable chicklets and a chat interface on a single page is mixing two UE concepts. I would recommend creating a "setup/admin" page where you add skills or create composite skills - and can do some manipulation such as providing the main p...
9 months ago in  0 Delivered

Ability to send emails to contacts one by one

Today the email candidates feature sends one email with all candidates in bcc. This is a good starting point but causes several issues: does not allow to cutomize the content per contact highers the risk for the email to be caught by spam filters ...
9 months ago in  0 Delivered

Append more than one property as an input to next skill

There is no ability to add / append the values of two or more output fields from the previous skill and send it as input to next skill. For example, I am getting "EmployeeID = 12345A" and "ApprovalStatus = Documents are Approved" From a custom ski...
9 months ago in  0 Delivered