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watsonx Assistant for Z

Integration with a SPIFFE based service to manage secrets, SSH & API keys.

Visa inc. currently hosts a production cluster of `Teleport` that provides SPIFFE compatible Agentic Identity Framework services. As a best practice Visa prefers that AI Agents hosted on IBM Watsonx Assistant for Z to be able to integrate with thi...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Assistant for Z Under review

Simplify the process of uploading user documents to zRAG by enabling a one-step GUI-based operation.

Currently, uploading user documents to zRAG requires multiple command-line steps, which makes the process complex and difficult for users who are not familiar with command-line operations. The current process is as follows: Copy internal files to ...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Assistant for Z Under review

Creation of a mechanism to properly select a target system(s) when working on a multi-saf environment

When a user is working on a multi-saf environment, there is no mechanism to switch systems during a session or chose which systems should be affected or considered as context for a prompt. The suggestion is to introduce a mechanism to switch syste...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z Under review

Include Backup for the RAGs as parte of OADP

Today's recommendation from IBM is to have the RAG copied by Opensearch. Opensearch is considered as a service outside of WxAZ from the platform perspective. Hence it is not included in the oadp backup. We were told that in future customers could ...
3 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 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z Under review

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.
4 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z Under review

Multi Cloud Support for Watson Assistant for Z

Enable, ship and support as, ‘a first class environment’, support for WxA4Z in other RHOCP enabled environments – specifically Azure, AWS and Google Clouds.
5 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z Under review

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...
5 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z Under review

Additional monitoring and recovery handling for WxA4Z

Add an appropriate MCP Server and Agents for WxA4Z to help monitor and manage itself. Additionally, provide a NON AI based ‘environment checker’ for a WxA4Z config and have it identify parm settings that may be ‘odd’ and/or confgs that are non-sta...
5 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z Under review

Create a mechanism for tracking license consumption

IBM watsonx Assistant for Z needs to be able to provide audit-ready claiming over users with access, from a license standpoint, for the available seats. Along with controls to control maximum seats allowed per appliance and provide controls over u...
5 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z Under review

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