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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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Allow IBM ODM Rule Designer to configure and use multiple OIDC scopes (per provider) for Entra ID/Azure AD authentication

When using IBM ODM Rule Designer with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) via OIDC, Rule Designer currently allows only a single scope to be configured through the JVM parameter: -Dcom.ibm.rules.studio.oidc.synchro.scopes=xxx/.default This works only if...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

Have option to secure TCP communication between XU and RES console.

User doing port scan and find this port is not secure. Ideally there should be option to secure this port as well.
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

BC - Business rule documentation to include hyperlinks for URLs

Our business users frequently make references to external documentations to support the business case of the rule. They use the documentation field on the business rule to record these external references as URL. When exploring these business rule...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Ability to download a printable copy of the snapshot comparison

Our teams of business users actively maintain and deploy business rules using the Business Console. Snapshot is a key feature they use to draw comparisons between two deployments (snapshots automatically created at each deployment). They frequentl...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

Missing schema definition for Decision Table ('definition' property) parsing in the DC REST API output

We have a solution requirement to extract certain "content" (names and address) used the business rules to feed the downstream stream systems. These business rules are authored by business users. We use the DC REST API's to retrieve the rule defin...
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Error in inactive rules

After installing Decision Center 8.12.0.1.IF011 on a new infrastructure and migrating projects, errors occurred where inactive rules were processed during the rule API execution. This issue had previously occurred after implementing IFIX 8.10.5.1....
12 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Is a defect

Ability to update a tag property of a business business rule using the query actions

No provision of updating tag names or values for a given business rule using action rules undermines the usage of tags in general. The only way to update the values currently is one-by-one as part of editing each business rule properties. This is ...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Make ODM compatible with EC2 Graviton instances

Itaú Bank uses ODM on AWS in an ECS cluster with Docker Containers and EC2 instances. The company is aiming to use EC2 Graviton instances to reduce costs and improve performance, but currently, ODM is not compatible with these instances. The goal ...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Option to customize the user context menu in decision tables

Since version 9 or 9.5, the 'Hidden' and 'Table Properties' options have been available to rules managers. Considering our usage of the tool, we would like to be able to modify the context menu from the business console in order to remove them. In...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

ODM Cloud direct zip file for Rule Designer

By making the latest ifix with jdk, plugins and eclipse in a zip file available for download on the IBM ODM cloud portal, we can simplify the process for customers and ensure that everyone - clients and support teams alike - are on the same page. ...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration