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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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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 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

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...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Provide verbalization allowing to delete tags on Decision artifacts from Decision Center queries

Whereas verbalization exists to add/update tags to Decision artifacts from Queries Find all business rules Do set the property "First Tag" to"Done" for each business rule or Find all business rules such that the tag "First Tag" of each business ru...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Need developer to be able to upload a decision service to Decision Center without requiring roles rtsAdmin or rtsInstaller. The core roles grant to much access to developers.

Need functionality that would permit a developer to upload a decision from Rule Designer without giving them rtsAdmin or rtsInstaller permission because they should not require that much permission.
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to sort Cells in a decision table on the disable/ enable status

Once the customer set sells to 'Disable' (Edit decision Table -> Right click on a cell -> Set as Disable'), they want to sort the columns using this status. Currently it does not allow the customer to push these cells to the bottom or top by...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Front end option to Export timeline to a file

Currently there the only export that can be done from Decision Center is an export of the project state. The customers like to export the time line to excel/ csv or text file from the GUI itself, so they can easily work on the activity log. This w...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

BOM and Domain Spreadsheet Mapping is Positional

We have attached a doc file explaining in detail with the screenshots.
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Provide some APIs to retrieve separately the important infos available in the XU Dump

Currently one has to retrieve a XU dump, or to retrieve the "DebugInfos" in the XU MBean, to be able to check some of the infos we can see in the XU Dump, such as the Connections. However, if we are just focusing on one part of those infos (such a...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

As a business user, I would like to be able to perform rule analysis in the decision center

To enhance the quality of our services, we need analysis capabilities similar to those already available with the Rule Designer
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

GITLAB integration

Could we please have integration set withup between ODM and gitlab so that we can manage the ODM assets from Git. Seem this is currently available in Automation Decision Services - can this please be extended to ODM as well.
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration