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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.


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Operational Decision Manager

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ODM native support for password vault integration (ex. CyberArk)

Currently, ODM requires passwords to either be hardcoded or injected on deployment. This has resulted in some custom code on our side because we aren't able to have ODM make a call to CyberArk using an Alias to retrieve the service account/passwor...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Have an option to include a default output at the end of the table if no other conditions match. Similar to an else/default in a case/switch statement, but for decision tables.

Our team had been using the otherwise keyword to achieve a similar effect, but apparently this only works consistently when there are no blank spaces in multiple columns or if everything is in a single column? It would be nice for developers to ha...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Needs more information

ODM RES Console Ruleset Statistics View needs to show 99% and 99.9% percentile also

Currently ODM RES Console "Ruleset Statistics View" displays a flat average-response-time for a given session controlled by "Reset" and "Refresh". It would be much more helpful if we can see the response time for 99% and 99.9% percentiles also. Th...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

MAIN Branch Protection

Itaú adopts the strategy of maintaining the MAIN branch as the single and reliable version of the project, ensuring that only the MAIN branch is used for production deployment. Deployment Policy: All rule changes must be carried out in new branche...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Be able to see the "Expected" result also in the Test Suite generated excel report file

Currently, when we run the Test Suite, we can see in the report both the Expected value and the output value. However, if we chose to generate an Excel file with the output, we get in that Excel file the input value and the output value, but not t...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

ODM: enhance decision engine to show DecisionTable name and package info in the error message

ODM: enhance decision engine to show DecisionTable name/row and package info in the error message when exception occurred in rule condition evaluation
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Res Console should provide warning message

RES console should provide warning message when we disable ruleset make sure at least one ruleset enables state.
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

An administrative feature that allows the bulk unlocking of all artifacts within a specific project/release.

In some cases, users leave multiple rules locked without realizing it. When they are absent, there is no way to unlock them in bulk (log off). At Itaú Bank, there are projects with extensive folder and subfolder structures, which forces us, as adm...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Create Decision Center Group with Specified Permission

We are successfully deploying ODM 8.12.0 Helm Charts in our managed Kubernetes environment.No Issue here. As per the instructions, we are using "group-security-configurations.xml" with Helm Chart to successfully create Groups/Users in Decision Cen...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Enabling Client-Cert authentication for ODM RES running on AWS EKS (Certified Kubernetes)

Customer needs to configure Client-Cert Authentication. They are looking forward to steps relevant to containerized ODM RES on AWS EKS (Certified Kubernetes), on how to enable, and configure Client-Cert authentication for api endpoints of rules pa...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration