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  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

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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


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

Error in inactive rules

After installing Decision Center 8.12.0.1.IF011 on a new infrastructure and migrating projects, errors occurred where inactive rules were processed during the rule API execution. This issue had previously occurred after implementing IFIX 8.10.5.1....
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Is a defect

Missing schema definition for Decision Table ('definition' property) parsing in the DC REST API output

We have a solution requirement to extract certain "content" (names and address) used the business rules to feed the downstream stream systems. These business rules are authored by business users. We use the DC REST API's to retrieve the rule defin...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 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...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager

Make ODM compatible with EC2 Graviton instances

Itaú Bank uses ODM on AWS in an ECS cluster with Docker Containers and EC2 instances. The company is aiming to use EC2 Graviton instances to reduce costs and improve performance, but currently, ODM is not compatible with these instances. The goal ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 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 ...
almost 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Rule Designer 8.12.0 does not accept three-level Base Version such as 2.79.1

Please see details in Case TS021272402.
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

In ODM 8.12 API "import decision service on top of the existing branch" is not removing the deleted items from the existing branch

We published a decision service to Decision Center by using the API "/v1/decisionservices/import". Then, in Rule Designer we deleted a rule and created a new ZIP for the decision service. Now, we used the API "/v1/decisionservices/decisionServiceI...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Planned for future release

Add support in IBM Operational Decision Manager Decision Center to export decision tables directly as CSV or flat files, including support through the Decision Center API.

Today, Decision Center Business Console allows exporting decision tables as Excel files only. There is currently no standard capability to directly export decision tables as CSV or flat files, and no Decision Center API support for this type of ex...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

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...
7 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.
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

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