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).


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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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    Simulation job parameter to show the date in the format set on DC locale - currently only showing date format in US

    Users need to be able to set the locale for the dates used in the JobParameter. As See below extract from Sample <scenarioSuiteFormat locale="EN" name="loanvalidation.random.multi-thread.format" version="1.0" xmlns="http://schemas.ibm.com/rules...
    4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Planned for future release

    Be able to see the "Expected" result also in the Test Suite generated excel report file

    Currently, when we run the Test Suite, we can see in the report both the Expected value and the output value. However, if we chose to generate an Excel file with the output, we get in that Excel file the input value and the output value, but not t...
    4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

    Effective management of simulation Jobs ( viz identifying #simulations running at any time)

    Customer is looking for a feature to - Identify the number of simulation’s running and their status (e.g. “RUNNING”) in DC Runner at any point in time. - To manage the simulation batch jobs effectively e.g. queuing or rejecting the simulation requ...
    5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

    Support for newer eclipse version for Rule Designer

    Rule Designer 9.5 supports only Eclipse 2024-12 which is out of support since 2024/12/04. Please add support for a more current Eclipse Version, so that we can use a maintained Version.
    5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

    provide some kind of encapsulation option (private, public) for ODM project variables

    Context : Rule Designer, rule authoring, variable definition To provide a better user experience for business users, and avoid confusion in variable completion.It would be good to provide an encapsulation concept for projects variables : ex privat...
    5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

    Add an option for Decision table to execute only first instead of all matching rows

    It involves quite some work and sometimes cause confusion (as it depends on the execution mode of the rule task) to implement the requirement to execute first matched row in a Decision Table.It will greately simplify the rule writing if there is a...
    5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

    More granular permission management

    The current functionality does not allow a user to select only the operation to be published without granting access to targets, servers, and the administration tab. Currently, the only way to enable a user to select an operation is by assigning t...
    5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Not under consideration

    Keycloak Logout Redirect to DC/RES

    Useful in usability of the product as users would need to bookmark the DC/RES pages or else it is not accessible to the login page after clicking logout. This behavior should be similar to the logout using basic auth. The DC/RES ODM team need to i...
    5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Planned for future release

    ODM: enhance decision engine to show DecisionTable name and package info in the error message

    ODM: enhance decision engine to show DecisionTable name/row and package info in the error message when exception occurred in rule condition evaluation
    6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    Res Console should provide warning message

    RES console should provide warning message when we disable ruleset make sure at least one ruleset enables state.
    6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

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