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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:

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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,

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  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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Be able to see the "Expected" result also in the Test Suite generated excel report file

Currently, when we run the Test Suite, we can see in the report both the Expected value and the output value. However, if we chose to generate an Excel file with the output, we get in that Excel file the input value and the output value, but not t...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

provide some kind of encapsulation option (private, public) for ODM project variables

Context : Rule Designer, rule authoring, variable definition To provide a better user experience for business users, and avoid confusion in variable completion.It would be good to provide an encapsulation concept for projects variables : ex privat...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

More granular permission management

The current functionality does not allow a user to select only the operation to be published without granting access to targets, servers, and the administration tab. Currently, the only way to enable a user to select an operation is by assigning t...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Not under consideration

Res Console should provide warning message

RES console should provide warning message when we disable ruleset make sure at least one ruleset enables state.
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Retrieving passwords from Hashicorp Vault without Secrets Store CSI interface

Use Vault CLI image as a init-container to fetch secrets from Hashicorp Vault Echo out secrets to volume Mount Volume to ODM pods
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 8 Not under consideration

Looking to test/simulate multiple decision services

we need capability to test/simulate multiple decision services in decision center.
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Looking to create folders in TEST tab under business console

Currently, we don't have option to create user specific folders for testing in test tab decision center for decision services.
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Ability to filter/find rules artifacts by their "LOCKED" status

Admins need a better way to find and unlock rules left locked by departing or vacationing employees. The current Query capability is close, but having the ability to actually filter by the locked status of a rule artifact would reduce the effort a...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Feature to change the parameter ilog.rules.teamserver.transaction.timeout from UI

During a timeout issue, the user wants to change the above value as per the document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/odm/9.0.0?topic=reference-decision-center-parameters This requires many steps in up-packaging and re-packaging the war file. It would ...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Not under consideration

Serialize session data is not supported in ODM. Customer needs support for this in ODM v8.11.1 DC.

At the current moment, serialize session data is not supported with ODM v8.11.1 in DC, and it is due to the enablement of the database session persistence within a client's server.xmlPlease see the WAS configuration set that causes this issue : ht...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration