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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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FCC consent-rule change watcher

Problem: The FCC's one-to-one consent rule — the fix for "consent farm" lead generation — was vacated by the 11th Circuit on January 24, 2025, with the mandate issuing April 30, 2025, and the vacated language deleted August 29, 2025; it never took...
6 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Suspended-penalty collectibility monitor

Problem: Headline penalties in lead-gen cases are routinely suspended for inability to pay — $7 million against Response Tree, $13.9 million in the Vision Solar matter, $5 million from a Connecticut judgment described as uncollectible. The public ...
6 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Lead-gen enforcement docket tracker

Problem: Solar lead-generation enforcement is scattered across federal and state dockets — a January 2024 DOJ complaint against Response Tree settled around February 2025 with robocall/DNC bans and a $7 million suspended judgment; a 2019 action ag...
6 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Grant-linked internship and course matcher

Problem: A September 2026 state grant award funded not only solar installations but a new university engineering course and three years of student internships tied to the project — yet matching students to grant-funded project work is manual, and ...
6 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

State solar-finance bill tracker

Problem: In 2025, a Florida Senate bill backed by the incumbent utility would have raised customer bills to fund utility-owned solar while stripping third-party solar and net-metering expansion — its final outcome was not publicly confirmed. State...
6 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

State third-party-ownership compliance checker

Problem: Financing structures that work in one state are illegal in another — Florida bars third-party power-purchase agreements for behind-the-meter solar (fixed equipment leases are permitted under a 2018 commission ruling), a restriction that d...
6 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Federal clean-energy award status monitor

Problem: The $7 billion Solar for All program was terminated by EPA in August 2025 with only about $53 million disbursed before the freeze — then on September 18, 2026, a federal court vacated the termination. Grantees and subrecipients spent a ye...
6 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Nonprofit solar economics benchmark agent

Problem: The post-2025 economics of nonprofit solar are scattered across news reports — one Omaha school expected $18,000 in credits on a $45,000 system and $70,500 on a $235,000 array as a benchmark of the old economics; a Benedictine order put $...
6 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Transferable-credit vs. direct-pay comparator

Problem: After the July 2025 law, tax-exempt developers must choose between elective pay and selling credits — a decision that hinges on pricing spreads, transfer costs, and timing, all of which shift. There is no neutral, current comparison tool ...
6 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Elective-pay cash-lag forecaster

Problem: Nonprofits using IRS elective ("direct") pay reportedly wait 24+ months from placed-in-service to cash, with industry sources noting many developers regretted choosing it over selling credits at $0.90–0.92 on the dollar. Organizations bud...
6 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted