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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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:

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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

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


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 ODM Rule Designer on MacOS

After upgrading to ODM 8.10.2, found out that RuleFlows and Decision Tables do not work on MacOS. So the recommended solution is to either use Decision Center or Windows VM to make changes. We would like for IBM to make the same functionality work...
over 5 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Delivered

Accessing ruleApp / ruleset property values from within java XOM

When defining a RuleApp deployment for a Decision Service in either Decision Center or Rule Designer, we can define 'RuleApp Properties' key-value pairs. However, there does not appear to be a way to use the documented public API to access the pro...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Delivered

LocalDate and LocalDateTime

We want to use LocalDate and LocalDateTime instead of Java Util Date. Now we use Java Util Date and add an annotation @JsonFormat(timezone="Europe/Amsterdam", shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd").Timezone issues are a real head...
over 6 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Delivered

Decision Center admin section should have placeholder to view all rules locked by different or specific users to unlock

This is helpful when business users are accidentally locking the rules in case session expires and forgot to unlock them. In this case no one else will be able to work on the specific rule unless its lock is released by admin. Admin has difficulty...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Delivered

add a "clean all" for resources and libraries in RES

When cleaning unused resources / libraries in the RES explorer, a displayed range of 10/100 resources/libs can be selected to be deleted. When using automated deploiment on a regular base, this list can grow. It becomes then cumbersome to iterate ...
over 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Delivered

Provide a DELETE REST API in Decision Server to delete unused libraries and xoms

When using CI to deploy ruleapps on a daily/commit basis, the amount of unused reslib library is rising regularly. It would be nice to be able to clean unused libs/resources with a REST API as part of a cleaning jenkins job. BTW : a single button ...
about 4 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Delivered

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 Delivered

IBM ODM 9.5 compatibility with Docker 25

We would like to request IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) version 9.5 support and certified compatibility with Docker Engine version 25.x.
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager Delivered

Add Support for Ubuntu OpenJDK

As Ubuntu is supported as a platform we would like a support announcement for using Ubuntu OpenJDK.
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Delivered

Decision Center should have filtering criteria as toggle hierarchical view while authoring the rules

Decision Center should have filtering criteria as toggle hierarchical view while authoring the rules. This helps the business user to filter the condition for the rule which they want to verbalize based on the Keyword. This was available in ODM Sa...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Delivered

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