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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:

Search existing ideas

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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Create APIs to delete unused Resources and Libraries in RES

Our company is automating the deletion of unused RuleSets in Rule Execution Server by using some of the existing APIs. We would also like to automate the deletion of any unused Resources and Libraries. Having APIs to accomplish this task would all...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

ODM 8.12.0.1 - Detailed System Requirements must indicate that it supports Liberty 23.0.0.3 and future fix packs as it does in 8.12.0.0

IBM Operational Decision Manager 8.12.0.1 - Detailed System Requirements must indicate that it supports Liberty v23.0.0.3 and future fix packs as it does in 8.12.0.0. https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity-reports/report/html/s...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Is a defect

RES DW page needs to limit the max number of results returned

RES DW page needs to limit the number of results returned to the UI no matter what is queried by the UI. This is needed because currently the RES Console UI Pod crashes and our end users would not always be super technical or know they might be ru...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Is a defect

Make ODM v8.11 compatible with Liberty 24.0.0.3

This would make ODM v8.11 compatible with the most current version of Liberty. It would also extend the compatibility of ODM with the most current versions of ancillary products.
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Include only needed rfl (ruleflow) files in the ruleapp generated

Today ODM adds all the ruleflow files from the operation's source project to the ruleapp generated. When the same project is used as the source project for other operations but rule flows are different, it creates unnecessary dependency when all t...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Not able to merge changes specific to deployment query and operations from Decision Center Change activity into release.

Not able to deploy the changes specific to deployment query and operations from an ODM service Release in Decision Center into PROD RES because we are not able to merge the changes from Change Activity to Release. We upgraded to 8.11 version and t...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

For Sox Compliance also add IP address /device info when updating the rules

Many clients are taking SOX chapter 5 ( IT controls ) as a general guidelines for SOX. Chapter 5 best pratice is to keep not only who did the change but also the device info ( IP, device type ) of who changed the content ( in the case of ODM who c...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Hide / encrypt hard coded DC passwords in the database

Currently today we are required to input a service account password into the UI console of DC for Testing and Simulation RS, which hard codes DC passwords in the database. We are looking for a solution to hide/encrypt passwords and we will not be ...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

DC Query for same business rule name

Customer is trying to find all business rules with list of rule names inside a certain package, however they need to also filter it by the parent folder (only validation or only computation) Find all business rules such that the name of the rule p...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Future consideration

DC Query Moving Rules

When you go to artifact, you have the ability to copy and move your rules. When you do a query however, you can only copy, there is no move feature. For example, using this query in the query tab, when selecting the rules, it doesn't have the opti...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists