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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

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Ability to limit the scope of the ODM Decision Centre Archival to Recycle Bin baseline only

While there appears to be no way to permanently delete the rule artefacts once they have been deleted and reside in the recycle bin, a subject of an existing RFE, a potential work around to manage the scope of the archive ant script to the recycle...
about 4 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Delivered

Enable Horizontal Pod Autoscaler support for ODM Decision Server Runtime under ICP4BA

In a Kubernetes/OpenShift deployment, the number of replicas for the Decision Server Runtime deployment is a fixed amount defined in the ICP4ACluster custom resource. The ICP4BA operator enforces this fixed amount by resetting any changes made to ...
over 4 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Delivered

Improve usability of the Decision Table preconditions editor in Business Console

When creating preconditions for a Decision Table in Business Console (ODM v9.0), the preconditions editor screen is unable to be expanded to allow the display of all preconditions (beyond about 6 lines) - the user must scroll through to view all t...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Delivered

Systematic enforcement that the Approver cannot also be the Author of a change activity.

Allow the administrator to choose if the enforcement of this new constraint: The Approver of a change activity cannot also be the author of the same change activity. Enforcement of this constraint will ensure separation of duty is followed.
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Delivered

Add REST API (+ ANT Tasks) to delete Groups and Users from the Business Console users registry

When you use the DC REST APIPOST /v1/repository/users-roles-registryto add a new user to the existing list, it worksYou can then see that user in the BC Console Administration / Users tabBut unfortunately you have no APIs to remove users / groups ...
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Delivered

Monitoring ODM-8.12 on certified kubernetes with mpMetrics-5.0 in ODM 8.12.00

We are trying to monitor ODM apps with mpMetrics functionality provided by OpenLiberty, following the documents below: https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/reference/feature/mpMetrics-5.0.html https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/introduction-monitori...
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Delivered

Add Decision Center REST API to Generate Release Reports

We would like to request that a new Decision Center REST API be added to the platform that will generate a Rule Report PDF file similar to what occurs when running a query report within Decision Center. Initial version does not need to allow for q...
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Delivered

Include the time in the last change field in the component list view of the rule project

Product: IBM Operational Decision Manager It is required to display the date and time of the changes that have been made in the objects of the rule projects, for example rule flows, rules, etc. Currently in Decision Center 8.11 - Business Console ...
about 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Delivered

automate Ifix to registry

The current process is to login to fix central , download, unzip, load docker images, and push to my registry. It would be great if the ifix was directly accessible in the registry or any process to automate it.
about 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Delivered

ODM 8.11: We need manual rule lock/unlock feature in BC

ODM 8.11 BC, doesn't have rule lock/unlock feature which is available in enterprise console. We need that future in BC too. This feature is useful for below scenarios, Rule writer's once rule change is completed, they lock the rule and request for...
over 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Delivered