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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).


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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:

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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Change Decision Center DB to Version Control System

It has been painful to synchronize the rule artifacts between the branches in the Decision Center and developer workspaces. If the developer is NOT following best practices while renaming, copying the rule artifacts, and making the changes to the ...
almost 5 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

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 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

User inactivity - logging and automated LDAP role unassignment > 90 days - audit requirements

All (!) companies must fulfill cyber security requirements which are not yet feature in ODM: ISO 27001 In addition, in automotive industryTISAX requirements in addition, companies with critical infrastructure. NIS 2 (EU 2022/2555) and RCE (EU 2022...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Set project security/visibility when publishing to Decision Center

Currently if a project is published or added to Decision Center, by default no security is enforced. When a user publishes a project and before an admin can enforce security on it, all users of DC have access to this project. If project security c...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Restore the Pan view feature in the new ruleflow editor

When looking at large / complex ruleflows in the new editor (in Rule Designer 9.0), using horizontal & vertical scrollbars is tedious. It was much easier to do so in the previous legacy editor, with the 'Pan' mode. Ideally, there could be a wa...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Import / export excel files via Rule Designer

In Rule Designer (Windows) we would like to import excel files to decision tables and export decision tables to excel files.
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Rule Deployment to simultaneously show in 2 RES Instances in different datacenters

We are needing to know or determine if this capability is a new feature and will need evaluation or if this already exists with some type of implementation. Client has the following set up regarding the option of having 2 data centers (1 in DFW, a...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Not under consideration

Extend cloud ODM with RMI Java Call

In our premise environment we use ODM for saving decision table with RMI and execute it with soap call, we would like to have the same feature in ODM on Cloud
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Request to get progress information of background execution

I would like to have progress information and result reports for processes executed in the background, such as deleting branches in ODM v9.
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

ODM support for Akeyless external vault

The customer's security team requires credentials to be stored in an external vault, they have standardized on the Akeyless product. Customer previously used Hashicorp Vault but are no longer using that product. The request is to not have credenti...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists