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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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  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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Zero-review provider reputation signaler

Problem: A licensed, operating center had zero parent reviews on any platform — no Google, Yelp, or Facebook presence at all. For most parents, zero reviews reads as a red flag; for a new small business, it is simply a cold start. Neither side has...
7 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Childcare capacity and ratio incident detector

Problem: A March 2026 routine inspection caught 12 children in a room licensed for 10 three-to-four-year-olds — corrected on the spot by moving one child and sending another home. Ratio violations that are caught are lucky ones; most happen betwee...
7 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Child immunization record enforcement monitor

Problem: Six children at one center had expired immunization records at the December 2025 renewal; by the January 2026 reinspection only 2 of 6 were cured, with the rest facing exclusion — and whether exclusions actually happened could not be conf...
7 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Childcare staff credentialing compliance agent

Problem: Inspectors found one employee reclassified to "other personnel" while completing required 40-hour training — a legitimate workaround, but also a pattern that can mask chronic under-credentialing if nobody tracks how long staff sit in that...
7 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Inspection-violation remediation tracker

Problem: One center's December 2025 renewal inspection found four noncompliances — a missing November fire drill, undocumented outdoor-equipment checks, an employee lacking required 40-hour training, and six children with expired immunizations. A ...
7 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Childcare site tenant-churn watcher

Problem: The researched address cycled through multiple daycare tenants in recent years (Children Palace, Kidz R 4 Uz 2, then a license-exempt predecessor at the adjacent unit, then the current center) — reasons for each turnover unverified. Seria...
7 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Small-center financial viability monitor

Problem: Inspection snapshots showed one 61-capacity center serving only 16–24 children at a time — roughly a third of licensed capacity — while state data shows 59% of Florida early-learning programs are underenrolled, a 4% quality bonus was remo...
7 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Childcare tuition-transparency standardizer

Problem: No tuition or fee schedule for the researched center could be found anywhere online — pricing was "contact us" only. With no published rates, parents cannot compare options and researchers cannot study affordability in the 32808 market. I...
7 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Scholarship-program participation verifier

Problem: The researched center was verified absent from every Florida K-12 scholarship participant list in Orange County (FTC, FES-EO, FES-UA, PEP Hybrid) despite marketing school-age education — meaning scholarship families could not use state fu...
7 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Childcare subsidy-contract status checker

Problem: A center advertised "free VPK" but its status as an approved VPK provider or School Readiness (subsidy) contractor could not be verified in public records — the Early Learning Coalition name search returned nothing and directories did not...
7 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted