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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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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Per-run cost and latency readout with monthly agent budgets

Problem: I have no idea what an agent run costs or why one task takes forty seconds. The bill arrives as a surprise at month's end. Idea: Every run shows tokens, model calls, skill calls, and latency. Each agent gets a monthly budget I set, with a...
about 2 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Drift alerts when an agent's success rate slips over time

Problem: An agent that worked fine in March quietly gets worse — apps change, data shifts — and I only notice when mistakes pile up. Idea: Track each agent's task success rate week over week and alert me on a meaningful slide, with examples of rec...
about 2 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Plain-English 'why did it do that' explainer for any agent run

Problem: When an agent takes a wrong turn, I get the final answer but not the reasoning. I can't tell which step went bad, so I rewrite the whole prompt and hope. Idea: For any run, generate a short plain-English account: what it tried, in what or...
about 2 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Skill health monitor: alert me when a connected app breaks a skill

Problem: A vendor changes their API and my skill silently breaks. I find out when a customer complains, days later. Idea: Orchestrate periodically runs a lightweight check against each connected skill and alerts me when one fails — what broke, whe...
about 2 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Inbound webhooks: let outside systems trigger an agent run

Problem: My other tools can't start an agent run. Everything stops at the chat box — I have to open it and type before anything happens. Idea: Give each agent an inbound webhook. An external system posts an event, Orchestrate maps the payload to t...
about 2 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Text-only fallback mode when the rich chat UI can't load

Problem: On a job site with one bar of signal, the full chat interface stalls — and my agent is unreachable exactly when I need it most. Idea: When bandwidth drops or the rich UI fails, the chat degrades automatically to plain text: no cards, no w...
about 2 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Screen-reader-structured agent answers: headings, lists, tables

Problem: Agent answers arrive as walls of text. My screen reader moves through them with no landmarks, and tables are guesswork. Idea: Render agent responses with real structure — headings, lists, tables with announced headers — plus a "condense t...
about 2 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

'Watch me once' recorder that drafts an agent from my clicks

Problem: I know the exact clicks for a task I do weekly, but turning that into an agent means rebuilding it step by step in a builder I barely know. Idea: A recorder watches me perform the task once in the connected app, then drafts an agent from ...
about 2 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Starter agent packs for specific trades, not generic templates

Problem: Generic agent templates assume an office with a CRM. My work is quotes, dispatch, and follow-ups — the template never matches, so I start from zero every time. Idea: Publish starter packs built around real trade workflows — e.g., a home-s...
about 2 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Turn my mid-task corrections into reusable agent rules

Problem: I correct the same agent mistake repeatedly — wrong tone, wrong spreadsheet tab, wrong date format. Each correction evaporates when the chat ends. Idea: When I correct an agent mid-task, offer "save as a rule." Rules live on that agent in...
about 2 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted