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

IBM ODM 9.5 compatibility with Docker 25

We would like to request IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) version 9.5 support and certified compatibility with Docker Engine version 25.x.
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Delivered

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...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Delivered

Rule match (decision) explainability

Provide the ability to output details from a rule match of the rule definitions, conditions and the corresponding values associated with the rule match outcome - in order to help explain why a particular business rule matched. This rule match outp...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Delivered

ODM RES "Creation Date" is from when the deployment artifact is kicked off from Decision Center and not when it was deployed to the RES.

The "Creation Date" is from Decision Center, but from an audit perspective we need to be able to evidence when the ruleset was deployed to the RES. These times can be roughly the same if you push from directly form Decision Center to the RES, but ...
12 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Delivered

Simulation job parameter to show the date in the format set on DC locale - currently only showing date format in US

Users need to be able to set the locale for the dates used in the JobParameter. As See below extract from Sample <scenarioSuiteFormat locale="EN" name="loanvalidation.random.multi-thread.format" version="1.0" xmlns="http://schemas.ibm.com/rules...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Delivered

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.
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Delivered

Add Support for Ubuntu OpenJDK

As Ubuntu is supported as a platform we would like a support announcement for using Ubuntu OpenJDK.
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Delivered

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...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Delivered

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...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Delivered

Improve usability of the Decision Table preconditions editor in Business Console

When creating preconditions for a Decision Table in Business Console (ODM v9.0), the preconditions editor screen is unable to be expanded to allow the display of all preconditions (beyond about 6 lines) - the user must scroll through to view all t...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Delivered

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