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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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

Creating queries outside of the Decision Center

We would like to create queries outside of Decision center. We noticed using the REST API that there's no option or endpoint to do this currently.
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Export of Decision Tables (DT) to Excel should export also the Table formats

When you have a Format set to your Decision Table column, this format is not being exported when you export the Decision Table. The result may not be usable as such for instance for script operation by the customer, forcing extra editing operation...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Modify Deployment Configuration on Closed Release

Allow deployment configuration files to be modified in a closed release so that we can deploy to other environments that may not have been selected in the original deployment configuration. As of today, we have to create a new release to do this,...
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Creating users, groups and roles by using REST API should not ignore those created in the DC Business Console Administration tab

The DC REST API to retrieve the user roles registry is: GET /v1/repository/users-roles-registryBut in fact it does not retrieve all the users / roles. It only retrieves " the last configuration file that was uploaded". In fact the documentation ev...
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Ability to filter/find rules artifacts by their "LOCKED" status

Admins need a better way to find and unlock rules left locked by departing or vacationing employees. The current Query capability is close, but having the ability to actually filter by the locked status of a rule artifact would reduce the effort a...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

ODM on Nutanix Hypervisor

Several ISA customers have deployed or planning to deploy traditional ODM on the Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor(AHV) due to cost advantages over VMware. While these deployments function as expected, customers are encountering support challenges when...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Functionality already exists

Move all functionality that requires modification of the product .war files (like secured htds & dynamic domains) into the product itself

With installation and management of the product needing more and more to be 100% automated, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain one-off instances of RES & Decision Center when the DecisionCenter.war and DecisionService.war files have...
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Authorization (view/update/create) to specfic rule(s)/package to a group on Decison Center

Hello Team, Can we allow view/update only to few set of rules(Action Rules, decision tables, packages etc) to a group in a rule project on Decison Center? I have a project which has many decison tables but I need to allow update for few selected d...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Functionality already exists

Enable cloud/Container ODM users to directly access the full set of sample projects—identical to those available for on-prem local installations—within Rule Designer or via a dedicated, downloadable package.

This is useful because it allows cloud and container-based ODM customers to access essential training and reference materials without installing a full ODM server. Developers, technical teams, and new users would benefit by reducing setup complexi...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Functionality already exists

Implementation of a systemic lock and observability in rule approval.

Implementation of a systemic lock with dual control for rule approval, ensuring that the creation, modification, or deletion of parameterized rules in the ODM engine is reviewed. Ensuring that rules were reviewed and tested before implementing pro...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

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