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Support all skill interactions in 3rd-party channels

Third party channels do not support form interactions and most pre-built skills + all skill flows/workflows are form-based today.
2 months ago in  0 Future consideration

Sharing of admin privileges for skills

Currently, only the originator of a skill can update/delete that skill. This is the case in both the catalog and in a customer's tenent. If the skill needs to be modified by someone else, that is not possible. Recommend 1. the originator has the a...
11 months ago in  1 Future consideration

Support SOAP requests

Expand the custom skill compatibilty to SOAP protocal in addition to OpenAPI to support a broader set of apps & use-cases.
3 months ago in  0 Future consideration

Skill to access database

Currently we don't see any skill developed to connect to database. If we have generic skills to connect to generic databases such as DB2 or MYSQL, it would be helpful.
3 months ago in  2 Future consideration

Provide connector to Process Mining to analyse working patterns

With much of the actual process being decided by the WO end user, there is a need to understand what skills users use in sequence and to understand if new skills, APIs or workflows etc can be improved even further. Make it possible to pass the WO ...
over 1 year ago in  2 Future consideration

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 ...
8 months ago in  1 Future consideration

In a skill flow, allow searching of the output values from previous skill while mapping to the next skill

Search ability of output value to pass in next skill while building composite flow. E.g. below, get all cases returns more than 100 values. To pass one specific value, we have to scroll though the list and select right one. It would be nice to hav...
10 months ago in  1 Future consideration

Allow sorting and/or filter at /configure/skills/manage

To produce the scenario: I just uploaded a json file and this allowed me to select and import 6 new skills Pain point/Friction in using the interface: Difficult to search and publish - user cannot recall the name of skills they just imported in an...
over 1 year ago in  0 Future consideration

Add "Duplicate(or Clone) Skill Flow" as an option for Skills Builders

Creating a skill flow is still time consuming due to the mapping requirement. It would be very useful to be able to duplicate a flow that can then be edited/altered for a similar work flow. Right now, that flow has to be built "from scratch". This...
11 months ago in  2 Future consideration

Base LLM configuration to disable General Purpose answering

The new Unified Chat default experience includes a Base LLM which provides both description based routing as well as General purpose answering.The Client has asked for a feature to disable the General Purpose answering, so that the Base LLM is onl...
3 months ago in  0 Future consideration