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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).


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:


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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,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

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.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Have the /v1/orchestrate/upload-to-s3 be OpenAI compatible - API design incompatibility is blocking third-party integration

The current API for uploading files into Orchestrate: /v1/orchestrate/upload-to-s3 https://developer.ibm.com/apis/catalog/watsonorchestrate--custom-assistants/api/API--watsonorchestrate--agent-execution-and-runtime#upload_to_s3_v1_orchestrate_uplo...
7 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

OVERSIGHT-TEETH-AUDIT: Civilian Oversight Effectiveness Scorer

A watsonx Orchestrate scorer rating civilian oversight bodies on real power — subpoena authority, independent budget, binding findings — because a watchdog without teeth launders the cover-up. Built on the 1979 FHP DOJ consent decree (DOCUMENTED) ...
about 6 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

EVIDENCE-MAP: Lawful Evidence-Preservation Mapping Assistant

A watsonx Orchestrate assistant mapping where a subject's data copies legally live — iCloud, carrier records, app servers — so lawful preservation requests go to the right custodian before deletion windows close. Built on documented retention wind...
about 6 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

DEATH-RECORD-TRIANGLE: Cross-System Death-Record Completeness Monitor

A watsonx Orchestrate monitor that triangulates every death across medical-examiner, law-enforcement, and vital-records systems — flagging deaths that appear nowhere, or appear differently in each system. Built on Illinois' documented zero death r...
about 6 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

QUERY-LOG-WATCH: Sensitive-Database Query Anomaly Detector

A watsonx Orchestrate detector flagging anomalous queries of sensitive law-enforcement databases — an officer querying one plate 382 times, hundreds of off-duty lookups, fabricated justifications. Built on four documented 2026 Florida database-mis...
about 6 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

PROCUREMENT-INTEGRITY-MONITOR: Government Tech Procurement Integrity Monitor

A watsonx Orchestrate monitor watching government technology procurements for the documented failure pattern: scope cut while billing multiplies, benefits collapsing to a fraction of projections, no-bid legislative overrides. Built on DOT OIG's FA...
about 6 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

GRID-DEFENSE-LITERACY: Community Preparedness Translating CISA Advisories for Small Utilities

Community preparedness translating CISA water/energy advisories into local action for small municipalities without OT security staff — because documented PLC attacks hit small utilities and the protection gap is at the underfunded edge (DOCUMENTED...
about 7 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

VULNERABLE-USER-CYBER-SHIELD: Plain-Language Cyber-Hygiene Toolkit for High-Risk Individuals

A plain-language cyber-hygiene toolkit for high-risk individuals — elderly, journalists, activists — translating CISA/FBI advisories into action steps: phishing defense, account hardening, scam recognition. Documented 2026 campaigns target exactly...
about 7 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

IMPLANT-LONGEVITY-WATCH: Independent Long-Term Safety Monitoring for Implanted Neurotech

Independent long-term safety monitoring for implanted neurotech — electrode degradation, revision-surgery rates, public adverse-event reporting beyond the trial window — because implanted-electrode behavior over decades is genuinely unknown (REPOR...
about 7 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

BRAIN-DATA-SOVEREIGNTY: Neural Decodings as Protected Health Data with User-Held Keys

Neural decodings classified as protected health data: user-held encryption keys, on-device processing defaults, no sale or sharing without explicit consent — because imagined-speech decoding (DOCUMENTED, 2026) makes brain-signal privacy urgent now.
about 7 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted