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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


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Operational Decision Manager

Add affected ODM Component in Security Bulletin

When reading the Security Bulletin, it is difficult to assess which CVEs are actually relevant to our specific setup. For example, we do not use Decision Center, but we suspect that many of the listed CVEs apply exclusively to this component. To a...
10 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Support for nested projects in Rule Designer

There are issues regarding nested projects with the following workspace layout: /workspace -> Eclipse/Rule Designer workspace /parent -> Parent project /ruleproject -> Main rule project When existing projects (parent) are imported from a ...
30 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Allow to build rulesets with the same artifacts name in different projects of a decision service.

If the 2 ruleflows or 2 rules have the same name in the same package in different projects we need to be able to include those in the ruleset generated. Adding the project name as a folder path would allow for being able to distinguish all artifac...
17 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

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...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Decision Center is not supporting active/active which is required to update DB sequences to move traffic

Currently, Decision Center does not support traffic in an active-active setup across data centers. This limitation prevents updating sequences when shifting traffic between data centers. We are looking for a permanent solution to address this limi...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Provide an option to exclude unused rule flows during rule app archive generation. Currently system supports rule-level filtering through query parameters (e.g., status and tags), similar filtering capabilities are not extended to rule flows, leading to the inclusion of redundant artifacts in the archive.

In the current application, certain rule flows are maintained in Decision Center exclusively for testing purposes, and there is a need to exclude these non-production flows during deployment to the Decision Server. While the platform currently sup...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Introduce authoring‑time validation (or mandatory warning) in IBM Operational Decision Manager to prevent saving decision table preconditions that contain unresolved placeholders (e.g., <a number>), which currently pass validation but fail during deployment.

IBM ODM allows users to save decision table preconditions that include unresolved placeholders without errors or warnings. Although these preconditions appear valid at design time, they consistently cause build or deployment failures. This creates...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Business user expecting to add inline comments or block comments in rule content. Currently we have capability to add comments in Documentation section however business user cannot add comments specific to any lines and for any block.

This will help business users better understand the rule functionality and enable them to maintain a clear change log directly within the rules.
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

We wish ODM would make Decision Governance Framework as a default so that application teams can defaulted to use it rather than giving them an option.

Security compliance in our organization and they follow Decision Governance Framework can dra
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

IBM ODM Helm Support for additional env variables

Support a configs that allows additional Environment Variables be added to helm without manual edit of Helm
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

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