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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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  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

When the rule property names are long, the user expects the details pane to adjust in width accordingly without having to resize manually

Our business users use Business console to managed and maintain their business rules. We have a sizable team of business users . An increasing feedback from the business users we have been receiving is their frustration on resize(expand) the rule ...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Is a defect

Return the full path (not just the immediate parent folder) of the business rule element in the DC REST API's.

Most business now employ DC REST API's for business reporting for business rules deployed in Business Console. The REST API's json response shows the listing all the business rules under the element list. For each business rules (both action rules...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

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.
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Allow IBM ODM Rule Designer to configure and use multiple OIDC scopes (per provider) for Entra ID/Azure AD authentication

When using IBM ODM Rule Designer with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) via OIDC, Rule Designer currently allows only a single scope to be configured through the JVM parameter: -Dcom.ibm.rules.studio.oidc.synchro.scopes=xxx/.default This works only if...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Support remote java application debugging for Decision Service

With Classic Rule Projects, we were able to create a "Remote Java Application With Rules" in Rule Designer 's Debug Configurations, and this allowed the user to remotely debug java application with Rules, including by adding breakpoints inside the...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Ability to update a tag property of a business business rule using the query actions

No provision of updating tag names or values for a given business rule using action rules undermines the usage of tags in general. The only way to update the values currently is one-by-one as part of editing each business rule properties. This is ...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Option to customize the user context menu in decision tables

Since version 9 or 9.5, the 'Hidden' and 'Table Properties' options have been available to rules managers. Considering our usage of the tool, we would like to be able to modify the context menu from the business console in order to remove them. In...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Decision Table Precondition – Unused Variable Warning Flag Enhancement

If you have unused variables in an action rule it causes a warning and underlines the variable informing the developer of the issue. With a Decision Table if you have unused variables that are created in the preconditions tab they do not cause war...
over 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

ODM Container - Addition of Kerberos configuration to IBM Helm chart for Oracle Database connectivity

Hi, Our Oracle Database is fully kerberized and we need Kerberos authentication to be added to ODM version 8.11.1.0 and Helm - 22.2.0 For configuring kerberos, we need to pass the following file which are available in our organization: krb_config:...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Rule execution server access control

We are looking for the admin privilege's for the monitoring group except ruleapp deployments.
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration