Digital Business Automation Ideas


This is an IBM Automation portal for Digital Business Automation products. 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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Please use the following category to raise ideas for these offerings for all environments (traditional on premises, containers, on cloud):

  • Cloud Pak for Business Automation - including Business Automation Studio and App Designer, Business Automation Insights

  • Business Automation Workflow (BAW) - including BAW, Business Process Manager, Workstream Services, Business Performance Center, Advanced Case Management

  • Content Services - FileNet Content Manager

  • Content Services - Content Manager OnDemand

  • Content Services - Daeja Virtual Viewer

  • Content Services - Navigator

  • Content Services - Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files

  • Content Services - Content Collector for SAP

  • Content Services - Enterprise Records

  • Content Services - Content Manager (CM8)

  • Datacap

  • Automation Document Processing

  • Automation Decision Services (ADS)

  • Operational Decision Manager

  • Robotic Process Automation

  • Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

  • Blueworks Live

  • Business Automation Manager Open Edition

  • IBM Process Mining


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.


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Operational Decision Manager

Support Jakarta XML Binding instead of Javax XML binding in newer ODM release

On ODM 9.5, jdk is moving to JDK 21, and runs in Jakarta EE container, but Liberty/ODM is still running Javax XML binding instead of Jakarta XML Binding. We want use the new xml binding 4.0 instead of old one.
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Add official support for Apache Kafka 4.x (including 4.1.1) in IBM ODM Decision Server Runtime.

Currently, IBM ODM 9.5.0.1 includes a Kafka client version 3.9.1 and is officially supported only against Kafka 3.x environments per the published compatibility matrix. Upgrading Kafka infrastructure to version 4.1.1 (e.g., IBM Event Streams 4.1.1...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Enable filters similar to DW for runtime events to Kafka

It would be great to have filters that control the level of detail captured in decision trace events. A customer has a custom solution for streaming decision events to Kafka. With over 2,000 rules, all rules are returned in the trace with only 4 r...
14 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Support for JBoss EAP 8.1

The last maintenance update for JBoss EAP 8.0 was an 2026-03-05 and future updates will only be provided for JBoss EAP 8.1 (https://access.redhat.com/articles/7039745) To get a supported configuration we need official Support for JBoss 8.1 with OD...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Configuration option to default filter to "All Types" in Decision Center

I'm reaching out regarding the filter settings in Decision Center. Currently, the filter is persisted for each user, but there's no option to default it to "All Types" for all users or branches. Could you please consider adding a feature to allow ...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

AI decision intelligent in ODM

Based on a given task, AI will be able to identify the decision service, create the change release, make change to the rule/decision table, and deploy the changes to the lower environment.
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Provide an equivalent Machine Learning Integration ability in ODM 9.0 & 9.5 to that currently found in ADS

The existing Machine Learning Integration ability in ODM v9.0 & v9.5 is deficient for our needs as it only supports models deployed into IBM Cloud Pak for Data. We are looking to integrate both rules and model into a single decision management...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Ability to pre populate query parameter from an external datasource

The customer's business users are heavy users of the the simulation feature. They have simulation configuration with query parameters which accept values for filtering the values of the simulation scenarios. There are times when the business users...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Effective management of simulation Jobs ( viz identifying #simulations running at any time)

Customer is looking for a feature to - Identify the number of simulation’s running and their status (e.g. “RUNNING”) in DC Runner at any point in time. - To manage the simulation batch jobs effectively e.g. queuing or rejecting the simulation requ...
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Have a Global setting for automatic resizing of content to fit column in Decision table on Decision Center

As a result of the new decision table editor, we want to have all our decision tables automatically fit to screen as it was in the Legacy decision table editor. This specific request is for the Decision Center. After sharing some data through a Su...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

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