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

Add official support for Apache Kafka 4.x (including 4.1.1) in IBM ODM Decision Server Runtime.

Currently, IBM ODM 9.5.0.1 includes a Kafka client version 3.9.1 and is officially supported only against Kafka 3.x environments per the published compatibility matrix. Upgrading Kafka infrastructure to version 4.1.1 (e.g., IBM Event Streams 4.1.1...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

IBM ODM Helm Support

Support a configs that allows additional Environment Variables be added to helm without manual edit of Helm
4 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Submitted

Integrate ODM RuleDesigner with IntelliJ and VS Code

Most organizations today have standardized on IntelliJ IDEA and VS Code for development, along with proprietary and supported extensions, rather than Eclipse. Using IntelliJ or VS Code would also make it easier to fully leverage Copilot features—s...
5 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Submitted

Configurable ressources for init-folder-readonlyfs container

We are using the official helm charts from https://github.com/IBM/charts/tree/master/repo/ibm-helmCurrently I am using: ibm-odm-prod-25.1.7.tgz Our multi tenant Openshift 4.18 cluster is totally relying on ressouce quotas for namespaces.For our OD...
19 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Visual Studio Plugin for ODM Rule Development

ODM provides Eclipse Rule Designer Plugin. None for Vistual Studio. VS is the IDE of choice for CoPilot. Need ability to leverage LLM capabilities using ODM regardless of persona ( Developer vs Business user) and use any model of choice
26 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

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...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Support Jakarta XML Binding instead of Javax XML binding in newer ODM release

On ODM 9.5, jdk is moving to JDK 21, and runs in Jakarta EE container, but Liberty/ODM is still running Javax XML binding instead of Jakarta XML Binding. We want use the new xml binding 4.0 instead of old one.
10 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Submitted

AI decision intelligent in ODM

Based on a given task, AI will be able to identify the decision service, create the change release, make change to the rule/decision table, and deploy the changes to the lower environment.
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

XU persistence statistic in db or configmap

Currently XU persistence statistic resets with pod restart, there no directions to persist this somewhere
13 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

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 ...
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

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