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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


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Operational Decision Manager

Add a REST endpoint to retrieve a rule analysis report from the Decision Center

Through a REST endpoint, we want to generate reports (similar to those already available within the Rule Designer) and forward them to the respective departments. The entire process would then be a fully automated solution without user interaction.
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Add an option (maybe in Decision Deployment Configuration) to disable DT overlap and gap checks

For projects with large number of DTs, overlap and gap checking can take a long time at ruleset building. With this option at project level, it allows user to turn on these checking at rule authoring time, without impact the ruleset build time at ...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Add options to the cleanup tool to permanently delete all versions of specific artifacts

Currently, the cleanup tool (/v1/DBAdmin/cleanup REST API) helps reduce the database size when you have multiple versions of specific artifacts (such as DT or Test Suite). However the latest version and the original version remains in the database...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Rule Consistency checks within Business Console

In the Enterprise Console it was possible for the rule author to run a rule consistency check against a specific query or from the 'analysis' page. In Business Console there is no such feature.
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Modify Deployment Configuration on Closed Release

Allow deployment configuration files to be modified in a closed release so that we can deploy to other environments that may not have been selected in the original deployment configuration. As of today, we have to create a new release to do this,...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

mTLS support for ODM on Kubernetes required for Apigee integration

mTLS (mutual TLS) protocol is required for ODM on K8S for Apigee integration. Mathias Mouly has stated that it's possible to mTLS support for ODM on Kubernetes See Slack thread: https://ibm-cloud.slack.com/archives/C7L0AD0PJ/p1737652228664479?thre...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Export of Decision Tables (DT) to Excel should export also the Table formats

When you have a Format set to your Decision Table column, this format is not being exported when you export the Decision Table. The result may not be usable as such for instance for script operation by the customer, forcing extra editing operation...
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Enable validation of variable definitions at the time of saving Variable Sets

Product: IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) Version: 9.0.0.1 Background / Problem Statement: Currently, validation of variables defined in Variable Sets is only performed during RuleApp build. There is no validation at the time of saving or co...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

We want to be able to choose format for dates in exporting decision table to Excel.

in IBM ODM Decision Center 9.5, whenever we export a decision table to XLSX, dates are written in the format M/D/Y H:MM:SS AM/PM. Is there a possibility to change the format to Y-M-D HH:MM:SS. Example: Instead of 08/31/2025 03:00:00 PM, we would l...
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

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