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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


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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

Provide a supported configuration option to customize the NGINX keepalive_timeout for ODM Decision Server Runtime ZenExtension in IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation.

Environment IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) 24.0.1 Operational Decision Manager (ODM) deployed on Red Hat OpenShift Decision Server Runtime (DSR) exposed through the CP4BA Zen Front Door (NGINX) ZenExtension resource automatically ge...
7 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Functionality already exists

Decision Center is not supporting active/active which is required to update DB sequences to move traffic

Currently, Decision Center does not support traffic in an active-active setup across data centers. This limitation prevents updating sequences when shifting traffic between data centers. We are looking for a permanent solution to address this limi...
29 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Ability to add a Comment to the Rule Artifact in the "DO" of a Query

Currently we can add Documentation to Rule Artifacts in the DO part of a Query. But we cannot add comment to that artifact.However this comment section is more adapted to audit than the documentation.
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

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

IBM ODM Compatibility with AWS Bottlerocket Container OS

Support for running IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) using AWS Bottlerocket OS. This OS is required for security and hardening standards, and we would like IBM ODM to be certified/validated for this environment
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Provide information about the DBLock table

The DBLOCK table is not documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/fr/odm/9.5.0?topic=schema-tables-standard-features It is not part of the original schema, However, it can be created at runtime, and some customers have faced permissions issues for it...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Is a defect

Request for Jakarta EE 10 compatible build of IBM ODM Decision Center's dbdump tool

The Decision Center dbdump web application is currently not compatible with Jakarta EE 9 or Jakarta EE 10 runtimes, as it is built against Java EE / Jakarta EE 8 APIs (javax.* namespaces). In environments where Jakarta EE 10 is mandated as a platf...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Is a defect

Enable validation of variable definitions at the time of saving Variable Sets

Product: IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) Version: 9.0.0.1 Background / Problem Statement: Currently, validation of variables defined in Variable Sets is only performed during RuleApp build. There is no validation at the time of saving or co...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Improve clarity and root-cause visibility in RuleApp deployment error messages

Product: IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) Version: 9.0.0.1 (Observed post iFix IF024) Background / Problem Statement: Following the resolution of defect DT463767 (delivered via iFix IF024), improvements were expected in deployment validation...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

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

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