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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).


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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:

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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Effective management of simulation Jobs ( viz identifying #simulations running at any time)

Customer is looking for a feature to - Identify the number of simulation’s running and their status (e.g. “RUNNING”) in DC Runner at any point in time. - To manage the simulation batch jobs effectively e.g. queuing or rejecting the simulation requ...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Support for newer eclipse version for Rule Designer

Rule Designer 9.5 supports only Eclipse 2024-12 which is out of support since 2024/12/04. Please add support for a more current Eclipse Version, so that we can use a maintained Version.
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Add Support for Ubuntu OpenJDK

As Ubuntu is supported as a platform we would like a support announcement for using Ubuntu OpenJDK.
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Keycloak Logout Redirect to DC/RES

Useful in usability of the product as users would need to bookmark the DC/RES pages or else it is not accessible to the login page after clicking logout. This behavior should be similar to the logout using basic auth. The DC/RES ODM team need to i...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

ODM: enhance decision engine to show DecisionTable name and package info in the error message

ODM: enhance decision engine to show DecisionTable name/row and package info in the error message when exception occurred in rule condition evaluation
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

An administrative feature that allows the bulk unlocking of all artifacts within a specific project/release.

In some cases, users leave multiple rules locked without realizing it. When they are absent, there is no way to unlock them in bulk (log off). At Itaú Bank, there are projects with extensive folder and subfolder structures, which forces us, as adm...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Create Decision Center Group with Specified Permission

We are successfully deploying ODM 8.12.0 Helm Charts in our managed Kubernetes environment.No Issue here. As per the instructions, we are using "group-security-configurations.xml" with Helm Chart to successfully create Groups/Users in Decision Cen...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Configuration option to default filter to "All Types" in Decision Center

I'm reaching out regarding the filter settings in Decision Center. Currently, the filter is persisted for each user, but there's no option to default it to "All Types" for all users or branches. Could you please consider adding a feature to allow ...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Provide an equivalent Machine Learning Integration ability in ODM 9.0 & 9.5 to that currently found in ADS

The existing Machine Learning Integration ability in ODM v9.0 & v9.5 is deficient for our needs as it only supports models deployed into IBM Cloud Pak for Data. We are looking to integrate both rules and model into a single decision management...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Enabling Client-Cert authentication for ODM RES running on AWS EKS (Certified Kubernetes)

Customer needs to configure Client-Cert Authentication. They are looking forward to steps relevant to containerized ODM RES on AWS EKS (Certified Kubernetes), on how to enable, and configure Client-Cert authentication for api endpoints of rules pa...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration