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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

ODM Integration with Monitoring Solutions to see logs

We see that ODM has no integration with any of the Monitoring tools (Splunk, App Dynamics, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.). Although we have must-gather script to see logs it is not the best way to provide kubectl access to all users (as Mustgather scr...
12 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Make log available in test report

You can log prints in the rules. Simplest form is to use the system glossary's print statement. We have also developed and built log statements. These give valuable information about processing, and are also used extensively when developing and de...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Provide some APIs to retrieve separately the important infos available in the XU Dump

Currently one has to retrieve a XU dump, or to retrieve the "DebugInfos" in the XU MBean, to be able to check some of the infos we can see in the XU Dump, such as the Connections. However, if we are just focusing on one part of those infos (such a...
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

As a business user, I would like to be able to perform rule analysis in the decision center

To enhance the quality of our services, we need analysis capabilities similar to those already available with the Rule Designer
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

The current 2-minute timeout limit on HTTP requests in ODM Cloud is causing retrieval failures for large datasets.

Timeout errors occur during the retrieval process in ODM Decision Center (DC) when using ANT scripts to synchronize data from Rule Designer to Cloud DC. This is caused by the frontend server's 2-minute timeout limit, which is enforced to prevent D...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Add an export button to the Project security tab

During upgrades, as administrators of the product, we have a need to track which area has migrated their project(s) to the next version of ODM and we don't have an identifier on the projects for ownership outside of the project security group. We'...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Support Dynatrace in CP4BA 24.x

Dynatrace is the standard monitoring tool used across all teams at RBC. We have been leveraging it in previous version of CP4BA as well. There are many upstream calls made before our RuleApps are called in ODM and Dynatrace allows us to get a whol...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration