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).


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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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    Tight adaptive abstention sets for human tie-breaking

    Problem: When agents abstain or hedge, they produce over-wide candidate lists (useless) or overconfident single answers (dangerous). Honest uncertainty should be tight and adaptive, not vague. Idea: Add an Orchestrate abstention module fusing evid...
    34 minutes ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    Evidential-uncertainty flagging for medical-imaging agents

    Problem: Medical-imaging AI fails dangerously exactly where it is most confident-looking: large segmentation errors hide behind plausible outputs, and today's uncertainty scores (entropy, dropout) correlate poorly with actual mistakes. Idea: Add a...
    35 minutes ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    Reviewer-strength profiler for personalized AI assistance

    Problem: Human-in-the-loop agents treat every reviewer as an "average human," so AI assistance that helps one reviewer misleads another. Real teams have specialists; the AI doesn't know who is good at what. Idea: Add a personalization layer to Orc...
    35 minutes ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    Collaboration-mode agent: solo, co-pilot, or handoff per case

    Problem: Agent frameworks force a binary choice — the AI decides alone or hands off entirely. Reality has a third option (decide together), and nobody optimizes which mode fits each case or how many reviewers a hard case deserves. Idea: Add an Orc...
    36 minutes ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    Meta-rejector that reports its own routing uncertainty

    Problem: Everyone measures uncertainty in the predictor, but the rejector — the component deciding "defer or not" — can be miscalibrated too. A bad rejector silently routes wrong, and nobody checks the checker. Idea: Add an Orchestrate "meta-rejec...
    40 minutes ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    Congestion-aware human-review scheduler

    Problem: Deferring every uncertain case to humans just moves the bottleneck: review queues clog, delays grow, and the AI's own deferral decisions make congestion worse. Current escalation is a firehose, not a schedule. Idea: Add an Orchestrate esc...
    41 minutes ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    Answer-set responses sized by uncertainty

    Problem: Agents return single answers even when they are unsure, forcing human approvers to either trust blindly or re-verify everything. Point estimates hide doubt instead of communicating it. Idea: Add an Orchestrate response pattern where uncer...
    41 minutes ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    Training-free deferral router for uncertain agent outputs

    Problem: Today's "learning to defer" systems must be retrained every time the human reviewer pool changes, so in practice teams either never retrain (and the router goes stale) or they defer everything to one overloaded expert. Uncertainty that ca...
    42 minutes ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    Geodesy-lineage training agent: from mason's square to satellite gravity

    Problem: The surveying and geophysics workforce doesn't know its own history — that the mason's square and the lodge's terrestrial globe are the ancestors of GPS, GRACE, and quantum GravNav. That lineage gap matters: it hides how craft knowledge b...
    about 1 hour ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    Classification-lag ledger

    Problem: Nobody accounts for the years that classification steals from civilian progress. Gradiometry: ~20 years. The cost of that delay — minerals undiscovered, water unmapped — is never tallied, so the next classification decision is made withou...
    about 1 hour ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

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