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watsonx Assistant for Z

Full support for TPF and ALCS

Complete the support for managing TPF environments from WxA4Z including appropriate RAGs, MCP Server(s) and Agents. In addition, add full support (RAGs, MCP Server(s) and Agents) for ALCS ( IBM Airline Control System ) – which is a major TPF appli...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z Under review

Enable Agents to Access Mainframe Systems as User Surrogates in watsonx Assistant for Z

To maintain robust auditing and compliance on mainframe systems, it is critical to track both the real user identity and the agent identity when actions are performed. Currently, there is no mechanism for agents to act on behalf of a user while pr...
5 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z Under review

Product name change.

This product name is too confusing. Clients are confusing it with Watsonx Code Assistant for z. Perhaps another name like Watsonx Concierge for z, Watsonx Curator for Z. I've seen marketing email that even confuses the two products, and refers to ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Assistant for Z Not under consideration

Allow Binding Connections to Agents Instead of Individual Tools in watsonx Assistant for Z

Currently, the Agent Development Kit (ADK) only supports binding a connection directly to a single tool. This approach creates limitations when the same tool needs to be used by different agents operating in distinct environments.I propose enablin...
5 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z Under review

Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Integration Protocol in watsonx Assistant for Z

The Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol is a widely adopted industry standard that enables seamless communication between autonomous agents across different platforms. Currently, watsonx Assistant for Z does not provide native support for A2A, which lim...
5 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z Under review

Enable Agent Triggering Beyond Human-Initiated Chat in watsonx Assistant for Z

Currently, agents in watsonx Assistant for Z can only be activated through human-initiated chat sessions. This limits automation potential in mature enterprise environments. I propose introducing mechanisms that allow agents to start processes or ...
5 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z Under review

Expand Language Support for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in watsonx Assistant for Z

Currently, the RAG system in watsonx Assistant for Z only supports English, which significantly limits its applicability in multilingual enterprise environments. To better serve global teams and improve accessibility, I propose extending RAG langu...
5 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z Under review

Streamline operational workflow after the system has experienced an error and resulting SVC dump has been captured.

Streamline operational workflows by automating Case creation for system issues, including diagnostic dump uploads to IBM. Enhance system programmer productivity by proactively searching related symptoms in the APAR/PTF repository to accelerate pro...
7 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z Under review

Include thumbs up/down on langfuse metrics

I've placed TS021884565 to understand the flow for the Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down feedback. The reply that I was provided with was that watsonx Orchestrate does not persist feedback internally. You are responsible for storage and analysis. If you wan...
3 days ago in watsonx Assistant for Z Submitted

Support for load modules with alternate names

Our shop creates and load modules that have names different than the compiled program names. We call these dynamically. These are difficult to analyze.
28 days ago in watsonx Assistant for Z Under review