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

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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

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Ability to view the BOM member documentation in the Model->Vocabulary view of BC when mouse hover

Our business users find Model->Vocabulary view of the Business Console very useful especially as all the members of the BOM (attributes and virtual methods) and their verbalisation can be easily located in one place. We do also support our busi...
4 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Return the full path (not just the immediate parent folder) of the business rule element in the DC REST API's.

Most business now employ DC REST API's for business reporting for business rules deployed in Business Console. The REST API's json response shows the listing all the business rules under the element list. For each business rules (both action rules...
5 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Ability to download a printable copy of the snapshot comparison

Our teams of business users actively maintain and deploy business rules using the Business Console. Snapshot is a key feature they use to draw comparisons between two deployments (snapshots automatically created at each deployment). They frequentl...
5 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Cleanup tool time frame by project

The cleanup tool here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/odm/9.0.0?topic=database-cleaning-up-repository allows specifying a time window of artifacts to keep vs purge. However, the window applies to the whole of Decision Center. We have rule projects for...
6 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

enable ilog.rules.bom.annotations.VocabularyLabel annotation in ODM

The annotation ilog.rules.bom.annotations.VocabularyLabel seems to exist in ADS but not in ODM.it would be usefult to add it for xom pojos.
6 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

To Create multiple users and manage them from DC console itself (Basic Registry)

While installing the default users like user Eg.,rtsAdmin to login to DC and deploy rule applications are configured in server.xml file. Later we need add multiple users to access and which is manual in logging to console and edit the file. Instea...
22 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Export of Decision Tables (DT) to Excel should export also the Table formats

When you have a Format set to your Decision Table column, this format is not being exported when you export the Decision Table. The result may not be usable as such for instance for script operation by the customer, forcing extra editing operation...
22 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Support remote java application debugging for Decision Service

With Classic Rule Projects, we were able to create a "Remote Java Application With Rules" in Rule Designer 's Debug Configurations, and this allowed the user to remotely debug java application with Rules, including by adding breakpoints inside the...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Extension for Rule Preview Formatting

When previewing (as opposed to editing) an action rule, we'd like the ability to programmatically add line breaks and other styles to the displayed rule. This would make reading the rule easier for authors. This might be a dojo extension.
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Remove User Preferences when a User is Deleted

When a user is deleted from the Decision Center their user settings from the usersetting database table are not removed. When a user is deleted their user settings should be deleted as well.
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Is a defect