Skip to Main Content
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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

My ideas: Operational Decision Manager

Showing 111 of 2142

Change collections treatment in TestSuites Output Excel Report, from columns to rows

When using Decision Runner in Decision Center, there are business scenarios where the XOM has a collection of objects as the input and output. When a testsuite is executed, we have the ability to create an output Excel file report which compares t...
almost 4 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

DC property to keep only the more recent reports and delete other ones

When we do automated test with Decision Center REST API, the number of reports can increase quickly. Limiting the number of reports with this property will help to keep the system stable (BDD, UI, AS ...).
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Provide samples to implement the custom Simulation Job Listener

Currently there are no samples to implement the Custom Job listener to customize the simulation data source, we tried to implement and faced a lot of issues. As this issue might be faced by the other customers so it might be useful that IBM assess...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Allow securing of connection using mTLS from a client to the Decision Server Console for REST API calls

Allow securing of the connection using mTLS from a client to the Decision Server Console for REST API calls. We require more security than basic authentication when making REST API calls. mTLS will require the server and client to have the same ce...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

We need a separate deploy role for ODM or access controls to enable/disable performing deploy operation for existing roles

Perform deploy needs the administrator role today. But the administrator role gives full access to all the projects. So we need access controls to enable/disable deploy operation for application roles or provide a deployment role to map users who ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Provide REST RES API or ant task to collect XUDump

Customers need the ability to collect XU dumps via REST API or Ant task programmatically. This is typically needed for performance tuning and debug and the current manual interface does not provide the ability to do so within a short interval of t...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

RES Console to support security config per multiple exec servers

This issue has become urgent as USAA failed a Security Audit, due to ODM RES security limitation. Customer has 5 Rule Execution Servers, each pertaining to different business partners. RuleApps for all 5 exec servers are configured to a single RES...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Project specific modify access should work to publish rule changes from rule designer to Decision center

Today the user who wants to publish the changes from Rule Designer to Decision Center need the administrator role which gives full access to all the projects in the decision center which is a security issue. Users with create/modify/delete access ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Propagate rule engine properties across branch/release merges

When testing with Excel spreadsheets, our ruleapp requires that the "Automatic exception handling in conditions" rule engine flag be set. Unfortunately, when a branch is merged, either to another branch or a release change activity, this flag is l...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Easy way to customize/extend web.xml for res on kubernetes

We need to define an additional decision-datawarehouse in the res. As we have installed the management-console in our own kubernetes we need an easy way to customize/extend the corresponding web.xml of the res.war to add the needed additional cont...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration