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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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  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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Automation Decision Services (ADS)

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Enable Horizontal Pod Autoscaler support for ODM Decision Server Runtime under ICP4BA

In a Kubernetes/OpenShift deployment, the number of replicas for the Decision Server Runtime deployment is a fixed amount defined in the ICP4ACluster custom resource. The ICP4BA operator enforces this fixed amount by resetting any changes made to ...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Add REST API for downloading/uploading ressource files in ODM Decision Center

The curent REST API of Decision Center dont allow downloading/uploading of ressource files (Excel sheets for Dynamic Domains). Customers may want to automate this tasks (updating dynamic domains) when their content change.
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

add observers in IlrSessionRequest

It is not possible today to add using code Observers to engine in a stateless Session 's engine except using observers in Rules/BOM. As it is not always possible to have access to rules for technical tuning (business users are editing the rules), ...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

SAML 2.0 support for IBM ODM certified for Kubernetes

The users of IBM ODM certified for Kubernetes need to access the IBM ODM via our enterprise login which is currently running Microsoft AD Federated Services (FS). For our IBM ODM certified for Kubernetes to authenticate to Microsoft AD FS, the pol...
almost 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Future consideration

maven replacement for res-write-file

The goal is to replace all ant build task to maven. When unzip the ruleapp, the folder is not recognized by J2SE session as a valid ruleset path.
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

API: Determining what changes have been done to a rule from previous version.

Finding a way to determine what changes have been done to a rule from last version. We can see this manually in Timeline -> Compare tool in BC, but, I am looking for a programmatical way to find changes in rules from last version/deployment. We...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Provide an ODM API to invoke Rules Simulation

Provide an ODM API to allow a client application to invoke (or kickoff) a Rules Simulation Job programmatically by specifying the “simulation name identifier” and “simulation property parameters” (this is so that the client application can pass ot...
over 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Change the default names used for the Request+Response+Error Class types in the RES generated HTDS services

If the JAVA XOM of your Operational Decison Manager project contains a class named Request or Response or Error then the definition of that class will be overwritten if you generate the OpenAPI/JSON file for the rule service deployed in the RES. ...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Add Timeout to the Test Suite comparison task

When you have huge / complex unordered collection being used in the Test Suite, after the Decision Runners finishes executing the scenario, the comparison phase might takes a huge amount of time.As a result, Decision Runner report page gets stuck ...
over 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Build Command - Rules Execution Maven Plugin

Testing the decision artifacts will be seamless if we introduce/create a build-command 'rules-execution-maven-plugin' like the existing 'rules-compiler-maven-plugin' for building the decision artifacts stored in the SCC. We have the JUnit test fra...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration