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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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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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Need to move xom-libraries folder in order to deploy the files that are built using Maven build command

Context: This is regarding the build command using maven. The customer is on 9.0/ Windows. He has multiple projects he used to build with eclipsec. But after upgrading to 9.0 he was trying build command. The customer used maven to build the sample...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

ODM Cloud direct zip file for Rule Designer

By making the latest ifix with jdk, plugins and eclipse in a zip file available for download on the IBM ODM cloud portal, we can simplify the process for customers and ensure that everyone - clients and support teams alike - are on the same page. ...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Decision Center admin section should have placeholder to view all rules locked by different or specific users to unlock

This is helpful when business users are accidentally locking the rules in case session expires and forgot to unlock them. In this case no one else will be able to work on the specific rule unless its lock is released by admin. Admin has difficulty...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Feature to change the parameter ilog.rules.teamserver.transaction.timeout from UI

During a timeout issue, the user wants to change the above value as per the document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/odm/9.0.0?topic=reference-decision-center-parameters This requires many steps in up-packaging and re-packaging the war file. It would ...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Not under consideration

Ability to organise BC queries in folder

Currently queries are organised in BC in a flat structure. Without any level of hierarchies, it is cumbersome to search the queries especially when the number of queries exceed a few hundreds. Queries are also essential to defining decision operat...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 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...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

Decision Center should have filtering criteria as toggle hierarchical view while authoring the rules

Decision Center should have filtering criteria as toggle hierarchical view while authoring the rules. This helps the business user to filter the condition for the rule which they want to verbalize based on the Keyword. This was available in ODM Sa...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Planned for future release

ODM Integration with Monitoring Solutions to see logs

We see that ODM has no integration with any of the Monitoring tools (Splunk, App Dynamics, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.). Although we have must-gather script to see logs it is not the best way to provide kubectl access to all users (as Mustgather scr...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

Make log available in test report

You can log prints in the rules. Simplest form is to use the system glossary's print statement. We have also developed and built log statements. These give valuable information about processing, and are also used extensively when developing and de...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Serialize session data is not supported in ODM. Customer needs support for this in ODM v8.11.1 DC.

At the current moment, serialize session data is not supported with ODM v8.11.1 in DC, and it is due to the enablement of the database session persistence within a client's server.xmlPlease see the WAS configuration set that causes this issue : ht...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration