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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

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Need developer to be able to upload a decision service to Decision Center without requiring roles rtsAdmin or rtsInstaller. The core roles grant to much access to developers.

Need functionality that would permit a developer to upload a decision from Rule Designer without giving them rtsAdmin or rtsInstaller permission because they should not require that much permission.
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Add values() enum methods for Excel dynamic domains

Excel dynamic domains mimics Java Enum only in BOM area for virtual classes. It can be synchronized with excel. It is sometimes needed to get the list of values from this domain to iterate on all the possibles domains.It would be nice to have the ...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

To Create multiple users and manage them from DC console itself (Basic Registry)

While installing the default users like user Eg.,rtsAdmin to login to DC and deploy rule applications are configured in server.xml file. Later we need add multiple users to access and which is manual in logging to console and edit the file. Instea...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to sort Cells in a decision table on the disable/ enable status

Once the customer set sells to 'Disable' (Edit decision Table -> Right click on a cell -> Set as Disable'), they want to sort the columns using this status. Currently it does not allow the customer to push these cells to the bottom or top by...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Front end option to Export timeline to a file

Currently there the only export that can be done from Decision Center is an export of the project state. The customers like to export the time line to excel/ csv or text file from the GUI itself, so they can easily work on the activity log. This w...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

BOM and Domain Spreadsheet Mapping is Positional

We have attached a doc file explaining in detail with the screenshots.
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

ODM option to generate WSDL either of "document" or "document-literal wrapped" type.

IBM BAW team identified an incompatibility with WSDL generated by IBM ODM while importing that WSDL in IBM BAW environment, if the Target environment of the toolkit is set to "TRAD or CON" "Traditional or Container". It was working perfectly as ex...
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Remove User Preferences when a User is Deleted

When a user is deleted from the Decision Center their user settings from the usersetting database table are not removed. When a user is deleted their user settings should be deleted as well.
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Is a defect

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
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Add ant sync target "publish and reset" "retrieve and reset" for Business Console

Context :Ant tasks synchronisation with the Business Console Rationale : Using jenkins to perform automated synchronisation between a SCM (git/svn) and the Business Console triggers new needs for the ant sync tasks. One the the main problem is to ...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration