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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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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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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...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

Implement artefact deletion in Business Console update REST API

Decision Center REST API (update command) does not manage deletion of Rules artefact (package and rules). In order to synchronize a developer rulebase reference (SVN) and a Business Analyset rulebase reference (BC), we are using a CI integration (...
over 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 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...
11 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.
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

As a business user, I would like to be able to perform rule analysis in the decision center

To enhance the quality of our services, we need analysis capabilities similar to those already available with the Rule Designer
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

create List<XX> for ODM variable set along with Array

When assigning a new variable type in a variable set, it is possible to define this variable as an Array. Would it be possible to add List as well so that the type in the variable set would be List<XX> instead of XX[]. See image below
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Decision Center: Warnings after Excel-upload for decision table / clearer showing of errors in a decision table

We have big decision tables(over 1000 rows) in our services which have 11condition columns and a action column with three fields. These tables are often updated by the business users with the help of excel sheets. After uploading an excel sheet wh...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Add a timeout to "cancel" test suite execution that runs for too long

When you run a huge test suite, the execution can last for several mins, sometime more than 1h if you have put too much scenarios in it. The idea would be to allow for the user to set a specific timeout (testsuite_maxtime or something like that) a...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Add support for decision trees in ODM Business Console

Decision trees can be a convenient way to define and group business rules that are sharing some conditions, but not most of them (when all or most conditions are shared, then decision tables are better suited) Decision tree editor is not available...
over 4 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Decision Center Merge feature to allow bulk override merges instead of choosing for each rule artifact in the differences window

Decision Center has Merge branches feature to merge the changes from Change Activity to another CA or from Release to a Branch or from Release to a Release. As part of the first step after selecting source and destination branches, merge will comp...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration