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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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ODM on Nutanix Hypervisor

Several ISA customers have deployed or planning to deploy traditional ODM on the Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor(AHV) due to cost advantages over VMware. While these deployments function as expected, customers are encountering support challenges when...
4 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Submitted

Error in inactive rules

After installing Decision Center 8.12.0.1.IF011 on a new infrastructure and migrating projects, errors occurred where inactive rules were processed during the rule API execution. This issue had previously occurred after implementing IFIX 8.10.5.1....
13 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Is a defect

EC to BC migration: Business rule version history no longer shows the "Used In"

When you look at a rule history in the Enterprise Console, you get a column "Used In" It shows for each version which branches / baseline uses this version of the rule. However, this information is missing in the Business Console. Not available in...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Under review

Visible indicator that Rule Documentation has been set

When browsing to a rule in Decision Center, the Documentation section is not visible. It is hidden behind a click on the Details button.. Nothing draws the attention of the rule writer to the fact that there actually is some relevant snippet of do...
4 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

Rule execution server access control

We are looking for the admin privilege's for the monitoring group except ruleapp deployments.
12 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Authorization (view/update/create) to specfic rule(s)/package to a group on Decison Center

Hello Team, Can we allow view/update only to few set of rules(Action Rules, decision tables, packages etc) to a group in a rule project on Decison Center? I have a project which has many decison tables but I need to allow update for few selected d...
16 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Functionality already exists

Identify Rule App project updates in Decision Center for specific date range

We need to determine if any updates made to specific Rule App project in Decision Center between defined date range (25-Nov-24 to 11-Dec-24). Although the project was eventually updated at a later date, we are specifically looking if any changes w...
6 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Add parameter to control the access rights of the folder used for the cache when generating a ruleset archive

When you set the "Path of the location of the cache used to store build files" to a custom folder in the BC -> Administration -> Settings, and you set the "Type of storage to use as a temporary buffer when generating a ruleset archive" to "F...
6 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Need access to property or an API which can return XU pool size/Thread pool being used on given runtime container at any given time.

Why is it Useful ?? By monitoring thread pool size and resource usage, you can identify the upcoming issues and optimize performance. This helps in ensuring that the system is neither underutilized nor overwhelmed. It allows for better management ...
11 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Accessing RuleApp property values from within java XOM

When defining a RuleApp deployment for a Decision Service in either Decision Center or Rule Designer, we can define 'RuleApp properties' key-value pairs. However, there does not appear to be a way to use the documented public API to access the pro...
11 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review