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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).


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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:


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



Status Functionality already exists
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 15, 2024

Add direct feedback function for tools

When planning an implementing of a use case, the first validation step is commonly to look through the Apps and available tools in the tool catalog, e.g. "are there tools for this 3rd party application?".

Later, when actually implementing it, it may happen that the selected tool didn't provide the needed inputs or outputs to fit in into the anticipated use case. In this circumstance, it would be good to have a direct feedback function, where the "In this app, I'm missing a tool that ..." or "it works but the output/formatting is difficult to use, it would be better if..." etc could be communicated back to the tool developer.

This should work for both prebuilt and custom tools. From the tool developer side it would be invaluable to understand how tool consumers try to use or expect from the skill and provide opportunities for increased usage.

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Kelly To
    Sep 9, 2025

    Users can provide feedback now with comments as part of the user interaction

  • Guest
    Dec 10, 2024

    A general IBM tech support function does not meet this requirement. The point is to have a discussion with the skills developer/owner wether being IBM a 3rd party or a in-house IT custom skill developer.

  • Admin
    Saurabh Singh
    Dec 5, 2024

    Hi @Guest

    As of now you can make use of "Tech Support" option to share your skill ideas with product team.