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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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Rule match (decision) explainability

Provide the ability to output details from a rule match of the rule definitions, conditions and the corresponding values associated with the rule match outcome - in order to help explain why a particular business rule matched. This rule match outp...

Have option to secure TCP communication between XU and RES console.

User doing port scan and find this port is not secure. Ideally there should be option to secure this port as well.
23 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

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.
30 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Fix Column sequence mismatch issue in Decision Runner generated spreadsheet report

We have introduced multi-column in the scenario sheet to handle input JSON request of size > 32K characters. 32K is the cell size limitation.But the columns in Decision Runner generated report spreadsheet get jumbled up. The column sequence is ...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Is a defect

Support for newer eclipse version for Rule Designer

Rule Designer 9.5 supports only Eclipse 2024-12 which is out of support since 2024/12/04. Please add support for a more current Eclipse Version, so that we can use a maintained Version.
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Decision Center needs to provide REST API based Microsoft Active Directory connection to Sync group users

Currently, Decision Center provides LDAP and SCIM based connections for user registry. We use Microsoft Active Directory as a user registry and it doesn't support LDAP or SCIM. We know that, Microsoft Active Directory does not have a publicly expo...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Decision Center does not have Rest API to Enforce Project Security

Currently, we use the following manual procedure to Enforce Project Security in Decision Center Console: Login to Decision Center Console Click on "Project Security" tab Hover mouse over "Branch/Project" row Click on "Pencil Icon" New popup window...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Add a parameter to be able to remove the remove the X-XSS-Protection from the headers on Containers

When you open the web.xml for the res.war or the DecisionRunner.war, and search for "X-XSS-Protection" you will find this setting: <init-param><param-name>X-XSS-Protection</param-name><param-value>1; mode=block</param-va...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

Serialize session data is not supported in ODM. Customer needs support for this in ODM v8.11.1 DC.

At the current moment, serialize session data is not supported with ODM v8.11.1 in DC, and it is due to the enablement of the database session persistence within a client's server.xmlPlease see the WAS configuration set that causes this issue : ht...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Improve Search Functionality in New Editor

The new editor's search functionality has two critical issues: Incorrect Partial Matching: When searching for a term like "vip", the editor returns domains containing partial matches ( "ip" within "Tipo") instead of exclusively matching "vip". Thi...
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1