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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 the /v1/DBAdmin/{id}/wipe tool to also handles Test Suite attribute used to store the excel file

Currently, we can wipe information from element versions to remove Personally Identifiable Information from history records but this tool is limited to the following: brm.Definition.body brm.ProjectElement.documentation versionComment However, the...
17 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 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 ...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 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...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

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.
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

New API for Overriding Deployment Queries

This is a request to provide a new API for generating and deploying a decision service that provides the ability to pass the text of the query to use in the validator. IlrArchiveOutput deployDSRuleAppArchive(IlrDeployment deployment, java.util.Co...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Add options to the cleanup tool to permanently delete all versions of specific artifacts

Currently, the cleanup tool (/v1/DBAdmin/cleanup REST API) helps reduce the database size when you have multiple versions of specific artifacts (such as DT or Test Suite). However the latest version and the original version remains in the database...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 7 Future consideration

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.
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

ODM RES "Creation Date" is from when the deployment artifact is kicked off from Decision Center and not when it was deployed to the RES.

The "Creation Date" is from Decision Center, but from an audit perspective we need to be able to evidence when the ruleset was deployed to the RES. These times can be roughly the same if you push from directly form Decision Center to the RES, but ...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

ODM RES Console Ruleset Statistics View needs to show 99% and 99.9% percentile also

Currently ODM RES Console "Ruleset Statistics View" displays a flat average-response-time for a given session controlled by "Reset" and "Refresh". It would be much more helpful if we can see the response time for 99% and 99.9% percentiles also. Th...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Effective management of simulation Jobs ( viz identifying #simulations running at any time)

Customer is looking for a feature to - Identify the number of simulation’s running and their status (e.g. “RUNNING”) in DC Runner at any point in time. - To manage the simulation batch jobs effectively e.g. queuing or rejecting the simulation requ...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration