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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:

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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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Identify Rule App project updates in Decision Center for specific date range

We need to determine if any updates made to specific Rule App project in Decision Center between defined date range (25-Nov-24 to 11-Dec-24). Although the project was eventually updated at a later date, we are specifically looking if any changes w...
28 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Add parameter to control the access rights of the folder used for the cache when generating a ruleset archive

When you set the "Path of the location of the cache used to store build files" to a custom folder in the BC -> Administration -> Settings, and you set the "Type of storage to use as a temporary buffer when generating a ruleset archive" to "F...
29 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Ability to view the BOM member documentation in the Model->Vocabulary view of BC when mouse hover

Our business users find Model->Vocabulary view of the Business Console very useful especially as all the members of the BOM (attributes and virtual methods) and their verbalisation can be easily located in one place. We do also support our busi...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Support Dynatrace in CP4BA 24.x

Dynatrace is the standard monitoring tool used across all teams at RBC. We have been leveraging it in previous version of CP4BA as well. There are many upstream calls made before our RuleApps are called in ODM and Dynatrace allows us to get a whol...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

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 ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Allow to use config map/secret to mount files to ODM pod

The client have some common 3rd party library jar files shared by different rulesets, instead of putting them in XOM lib for each ruleset, they want these classes to be loaded only once. So they are fine to use downloadURL for these files. But the...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

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,...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Move all functionality that requires modification of the product .war files (like secured htds & dynamic domains) into the product itself

With installation and management of the product needing more and more to be 100% automated, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain one-off instances of RES & Decision Center when the DecisionCenter.war and DecisionService.war files have...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Not under consideration

Support remote java application debugging for Decision Service

With Classic Rule Projects, we were able to create a "Remote Java Application With Rules" in Rule Designer 's Debug Configurations, and this allowed the user to remotely debug java application with Rules, including by adding breakpoints inside the...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

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.
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration