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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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.

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    Improve collaboration with author and change history for shared assets

    In shared instances, multiple users may create or modify agents, MCP servers, connections, and other resources. It would be useful to display basic authorship and change information for each asset, such as who created it, who last modified it, and...
    14 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    feature in watsonx Orchestrate that can restrict or block model usage once a predefined token usage limit has been reached.

    This feature is needed in the control plane of watsonx Orchestrate to provide centralized governance and usage management capabilities.It enables administrators to set token-based usage limits and automatically control model access when thresholds...
    3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Under review

    Support for OpenAPI pre/post invoke plugins in Go Runtime

    Enable support for OpenAPI pre-invoke and post-invoke plugins in the Go Runtime, allowing custom logic to be executed before requests are sent to backend services and after responses are received. This enhancement provides greater extensibility, c...
    17 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    Add the posibility to delete connections from the connectors interface

    Currently, the only way to delete a connection is using the ADK. If you could delete the connection from the interface, it would be much faster and more intuitive. Especially if you created it by accident or if you want to do a quick cleanup, bein...
    17 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    Enable a parallel text chat stream while using the voice experience, allowing users to see the conversation in real time while interacting via voice

    Currently, when voice mode is enabled in watsonx Orchestrate, the user enters a voice-only interaction that behaves like a phone call with the virtual agent. During this experience, the textual conversation is not visible in real time within the c...
    5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

    Childcare address-history risk profiler

    Problem: The full picture of one center only emerged by combining DCF licenses, Sunbiz filings, city use permits, and predecessor records across two adjacent addresses (1228 and 1230 N Pine Hills Rd) — including a license-exempt predecessor and a ...
    7 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    Nonprofit-purpose ambiguity flagger

    Problem: A for-profit childcare center's owner filed a related nonprofit in December 2025 — first under a "#2" corporate name, then renamed to a "Foundation" — with no publicly stated purpose. Ambiguous nonprofit vehicles adjacent to for-profit ca...
    7 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    Inspection-snapshot staffing analyzer

    Problem: Inspection records showed one center operating with just 3–4 staff present for up to 24 children across age groups — compliant at the snapshot moment, but thin enough that a single absence could break ratios. Staffing fragility is invisib...
    7 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    Dissolved-entity pattern detector for education operators

    Problem: Public records linked one center's owner to three earlier education entities that were all administratively dissolved (2023, 2022, and 2017). Each dissolution may be innocent — but a pattern of dissolved predecessors is material informati...
    7 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    Childcare parent-complaint pattern analyzer

    Problem: DCF complaint histories and their severity classifications are hard for parents to access and interpret — inspection PDFs live behind third-party mirrors, and complaint dispositions are scattered. A parent researching a center cannot see ...
    7 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

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