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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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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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Enhance Rule project compatibilities with dependant Maven nature XOM projects

When creating a XOM project derived from Maven, then a Rule project using that XOM in Rule Designer, the xom-libraries xom does not contain XOM project resources. It is actually a problem as resources might be needed at runtime when executing the ...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Not able to merge changes specific to deployment query and operations from Decision Center Change activity into release.

Not able to deploy the changes specific to deployment query and operations from an ODM service Release in Decision Center into PROD RES because we are not able to merge the changes from Change Activity to Release. We upgraded to 8.11 version and t...
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

For Sox Compliance also add IP address /device info when updating the rules

Many clients are taking SOX chapter 5 ( IT controls ) as a general guidelines for SOX. Chapter 5 best pratice is to keep not only who did the change but also the device info ( IP, device type ) of who changed the content ( in the case of ODM who c...
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Import / export excel files via Rule Designer

In Rule Designer (Windows) we would like to import excel files to decision tables and export decision tables to excel files.
12 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Extend cloud ODM with RMI Java Call

In our premise environment we use ODM for saving decision table with RMI and execute it with soap call, we would like to have the same feature in ODM on Cloud
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

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 ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Future consideration

Add official support for mTLS to IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation

For the standalone version of Operation Decision Manager, there are the changes that are needed in server.xml to enable mTLS. However, in the Cloud Pak version, there is no official support to add the required changes (clientAuthenticationSupporte...
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Create APIs to delete unused Resources and Libraries in RES

Our company is automating the deletion of unused RuleSets in Rule Execution Server by using some of the existing APIs. We would also like to automate the deletion of any unused Resources and Libraries. Having APIs to accomplish this task would all...
19 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review