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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Support for the ability to compare rule flows between versions in Business Console

Since Enterprise Console functionality was removed in ODM 8.11.0, it is no longer to compare rule flows that were previously available. My customer has been using this feature for some time now and would like us to add the ability to compare rule ...
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...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Needs more information

Creating users, groups and roles by using REST API should not ignore those created in the DC Business Console Administration tab

The DC REST API to retrieve the user roles registry is: GET /v1/repository/users-roles-registryBut in fact it does not retrieve all the users / roles. It only retrieves " the last configuration file that was uploaded". In fact the documentation ev...
8 months 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...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future 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.
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 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...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under 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...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Not under 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...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Need developer to be able to upload a decision service to Decision Center without requiring roles rtsAdmin or rtsInstaller. The core roles grant to much access to developers.

Need functionality that would permit a developer to upload a decision from Rule Designer without giving them rtsAdmin or rtsInstaller permission because they should not require that much permission.
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to sort Cells in a decision table on the disable/ enable status

Once the customer set sells to 'Disable' (Edit decision Table -> Right click on a cell -> Set as Disable'), they want to sort the columns using this status. Currently it does not allow the customer to push these cells to the bottom or top by...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration