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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

Configurable ressources for init-folder-readonlyfs container

We are using the official helm charts from https://github.com/IBM/charts/tree/master/repo/ibm-helmCurrently I am using: ibm-odm-prod-25.1.7.tgz Our multi tenant Openshift 4.18 cluster is totally relying on ressouce quotas for namespaces.For our OD...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Configuration option to default filter to "All Types" in Decision Center

I'm reaching out regarding the filter settings in Decision Center. Currently, the filter is persisted for each user, but there's no option to default it to "All Types" for all users or branches. Could you please consider adding a feature to allow ...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Request for Jakarta EE 10 compatible build of IBM ODM Decision Center's dbdump tool

The Decision Center dbdump web application is currently not compatible with Jakarta EE 9 or Jakarta EE 10 runtimes, as it is built against Java EE / Jakarta EE 8 APIs (javax.* namespaces). In environments where Jakarta EE 10 is mandated as a platf...
23 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Is a defect

AI decision intelligent in ODM

Based on a given task, AI will be able to identify the decision service, create the change release, make change to the rule/decision table, and deploy the changes to the lower environment.
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Native Deployment scheduling feature within IBM Decision Center

We recommend introducing a native deployment scheduling feature within IBM Decision Center. This capability would allow business users to define a specific date and time for deploying rule changes to the Decision Server without requiring external ...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Have a Global setting for automatmic resizing of content to fit column in Decision table on Decision Center

As a result of the new decision table editor, we want to have all our decision tables automatically fit to screen as it was in the Legacy decision table editor. This specific request is for the Decision Center. After sharing some data through a Su...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Ability to pre populate query parameter from an external datasource

The customer's business users are heavy users of the the simulation feature. They have simulation configuration with query parameters which accept values for filtering the values of the simulation scenarios. There are times when the business users...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Provide an equivalent Machine Learning Integration ability in ODM 9.0 & 9.5 to that currently found in ADS

The existing Machine Learning Integration ability in ODM v9.0 & v9.5 is deficient for our needs as it only supports models deployed into IBM Cloud Pak for Data. We are looking to integrate both rules and model into a single decision management...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Business user expecting to add inline comments or block comments in rule content. Currently we have capability to add comments in Documentation section however business user cannot add comments specific to any lines and for any block.

This will help business users better understand the rule functionality and enable them to maintain a clear change log directly within the rules.
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

We wish ODM would make Decision Governance Framework as a default so that application teams can defaulted to use it rather than giving them an option.

Security compliance in our organization and they follow Decision Governance Framework can dra
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review