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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:

Search existing ideas

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

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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...
9 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

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.
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

We want to be able to choose format for dates in exporting decision table to Excel.

in IBM ODM Decision Center 9.5, whenever we export a decision table to XLSX, dates are written in the format M/D/Y H:MM:SS AM/PM. Is there a possibility to change the format to Y-M-D HH:MM:SS. Example: Instead of 08/31/2025 03:00:00 PM, we would l...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

Allow IBM ODM Rule Designer to configure and use multiple OIDC scopes (per provider) for Entra ID/Azure AD authentication

When using IBM ODM Rule Designer with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) via OIDC, Rule Designer currently allows only a single scope to be configured through the JVM parameter: -Dcom.ibm.rules.studio.oidc.synchro.scopes=xxx/.default This works only if...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

Option to customize the user context menu in decision tables

Since version 9 or 9.5, the 'Hidden' and 'Table Properties' options have been available to rules managers. Considering our usage of the tool, we would like to be able to modify the context menu from the business console in order to remove them. In...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review