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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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Operational Decision Manager

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RuleApp Versioning Policy in Business Console and Rule Designer

Currently, Deployment Configuration in Business Console and Rule Designer do not support RuleApp Versioning Policy. We need to deploy ruleapp from Business Console that automatically increments the version of the ruleapp when it is deployed.
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Not under consideration

Ability to Archive Project

We are looking for a way to archive a rules project that is no longer in use so that we still have access to the change history, but so that it is no longer update-able, or executable, and we are no longer including that project in our artifact co...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Not under 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...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

BC - Ability to better organise and manage queries

When managing queries in the Business Console under a rules project, it is not possible to organise queries into subfolders or perform other tasks that are normally available for other decision artefacts, like locking/unlocking and filtering. Now ...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Export/import of project security details of a decision service as Decision Center REST API

Applying project security of a decision service through automation can be achieved by having this feature as OOTB API. This will help in reducing manual work of applying project security via Administration tab every time new decision service is cr...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Cleanup tool time frame by project

The cleanup tool here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/odm/9.0.0?topic=database-cleaning-up-repository allows specifying a time window of artifacts to keep vs purge. However, the window applies to the whole of Decision Center. We have rule projects for...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

enable ilog.rules.bom.annotations.VocabularyLabel annotation in ODM

The annotation ilog.rules.bom.annotations.VocabularyLabel seems to exist in ADS but not in ODM.it would be usefult to add it for xom pojos.
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Allow securing of the connection using mTLS from a client to the Decision Center API for REST API calls

Allow securing of the connection using mTLS from a client to the Decision Center API for REST API calls. We require more security than basic authentication when making REST API calls. mTLS will require the server and client to have the same certif...
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Add Hierarchical BOM View to New Action Editor Like Existed in Old Editor

Please add the hierarchical view of the BOM that shows each object and each attribute that can be selected for each object to the new editors similar to what existed in the old editors.
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Multiple selected cell formatting in Rule Designer Decision Table

Currently, in Rule Designer, Decision Table(Legacy Editor) formatting options are limited to applying styles to whole table, a column or sing cell. it can be inefficient when we need to adjust the format of multiple cells at once. it would be bene...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Not under consideration