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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  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

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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


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

Option to customize the user context menu in decision tables

Since version 9 or 9.5, the 'Hidden' and 'Table Properties' options have been available to rules managers. Considering our usage of the tool, we would like to be able to modify the context menu from the business console in order to remove them. In...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Decision Center needs to provide REST API based Microsoft Active Directory connection to Sync group users

Currently, Decision Center provides LDAP and SCIM based connections for user registry. We use Microsoft Active Directory as a user registry and it doesn't support LDAP or SCIM. We know that, Microsoft Active Directory does not have a publicly expo...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Functionality already exists

Decision Center does not have Rest API to Enforce Project Security

Currently, we use the following manual procedure to Enforce Project Security in Decision Center Console: Login to Decision Center Console Click on "Project Security" tab Hover mouse over "Branch/Project" row Click on "Pencil Icon" New popup window...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Functionality already exists

Add a parameter to be able to remove the remove the X-XSS-Protection from the headers on Containers

When you open the web.xml for the res.war or the DecisionRunner.war, and search for "X-XSS-Protection" you will find this setting: <init-param><param-name>X-XSS-Protection</param-name><param-value>1; mode=block</param-va...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Option to filter out or hide items in the merge panel result that are of the same contents and only have version number differences.

Merging activity across releases in Decision Center with Governance Framework results in many differences being shown on unchanged items – due to version number differences. We would like to have option to filter out or hide items in the merge pan...
almost 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Allow ODM sample server to run with OUT Admin rights

In ODM 8.10.0 and all previous versions, admin rights were not required to run Rule Designer or to start/stop the sample server. During Fannie Mae's testing of ODM 8.10.5.1 and ODM 8.11.1, they noticed admin rights are required to start/stop the s...
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

New API for Overriding Deployment Queries

This is a request to provide a new API for generating and deploying a decision service that provides the ability to pass the text of the query to use in the validator. IlrArchiveOutput deployDSRuleAppArchive(IlrDeployment deployment, java.util.Co...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Display error messages in deployment report

During deployment time, if ruleset generation or deployment failed, for example GBRED0040E as a result of variable not initialized, the trace is shown in workspace log, not in Rule designer nor deployment report. The deployment report indicates "A...
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

ODM Support for Ubuntu 24.04

Currently, ODM supports up to version 22.04 of Ubuntu. However, customers are pushing to migrate to Ubuntu 24.04, which offers enhanced security, performance, and long-term support. It’s essential for ODM to stay compatible with the latest infrast...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Future 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...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

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