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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:

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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Reduce the payload size of api call "/applicableCommand"

API call "/applicableCommand" is an internal call triggered when click into any decision service from DC's Library tab. The size of the API is used by ODM to retrieve the permission of the current user for the specified decision service, whether t...
about 1 month 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 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

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 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 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...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Eclipse 2020.06 contains vulnerabilities so ODM v8.11 should be compatible with the most recent version 2024-03

My organization's information Security area prevents us from downloading vulnerable software from the various marketplaces for IDEs. This includes the Eclipse marketplace or eclipse.org. Because of this, our rule application developers are not abl...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under 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...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future 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...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Not under consideration

Provide verbalization allowing to delete tags on Decision artifacts from Decision Center queries

Whereas verbalization exists to add/update tags to Decision artifacts from Queries Find all business rules Do set the property "First Tag" to"Done" for each business rule or Find all business rules such that the tag "First Tag" of each business ru...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

ODM Container - Addition of Kerberos configuration to IBM Helm chart for Oracle Database connectivity

Hi, Our Oracle Database is fully kerberized and we need Kerberos authentication to be added to ODM version 8.11.1.0 and Helm - 22.2.0 For configuring kerberos, we need to pass the following file which are available in our organization: krb_config:...
about 1 year 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...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Needs more information