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

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.
about 1 month 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...
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...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Unlock Greater Flexibility and Resilience with the ability to manage Automatic Exception Handling (AEH) in Decision Center (DC)

Currently, AEH is exclusively controlled within Rule Designer, creating a bottleneck and limiting our ability to adapt quickly. By enabling AEH in Decision Center, you would grant business users the power to configure this setting, eliminating del...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Add a Testing Decision Operation run configuration in the RD plugin for ODM On Cloud

Such a run configuration is currently available in RD on premise, but not in the RD for ODM On Cloud ! This execution configuration complements the Tests and Simulation local menu, allowing you to verify a project and generate an Excel scenario fi...
3 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...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Ability to add data validation on the simulation query parameters

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...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Option to disable Warnings for empty conditions on DT during deployment

During deployment, lots of warnings are displayed on deployment report: There is a warning "col: 4, line: 1: The Otherwise condition inverses a large number of conditions. Performance might be impacted." Which is expected if there are more than 50...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Allow the /v1/DBAdmin/{id}/wipe tool to also handles Test Suite attribute used to store the excel file

Currently, we can wipe information from element versions to remove Personally Identifiable Information from history records but this tool is limited to the following: brm.Definition.body brm.ProjectElement.documentation versionComment However, the...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Creating queries outside of the Decision Center

We would like to create queries outside of Decision center. We noticed using the REST API that there's no option or endpoint to do this currently.
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

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