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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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Include Release creation date in Decision Center (DC) APIs - Specifically the one that pull all the releases for a decision service in DC

IBM DC provides APIs to extract all the releases for a decision service that includes most of the details except release creation date. This will help the customers who are adopting IBM ODM as enterprise rules engine & have audit/accountabilit...
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Delivered

Monitoring ODM-8.12 on certified kubernetes with mpMetrics-5.0 in ODM 8.12.00

We are trying to monitor ODM apps with mpMetrics functionality provided by OpenLiberty, following the documents below: https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/reference/feature/mpMetrics-5.0.html https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/introduction-monitori...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Delivered

Add Decision Center REST API to Generate Release Reports

We would like to request that a new Decision Center REST API be added to the platform that will generate a Rule Report PDF file similar to what occurs when running a query report within Decision Center. Initial version does not need to allow for q...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Delivered

Add a property or switch to enable generating Kafka event for failed executions.

Customers in financial industry need ODM to generate Kafka events for failed executions same way as successful executions for auditiability, explainability, and compliance requirements. The current workaround is for the client app to monitor the H...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Delivered

Add ODM support for HashiCorp Vault Secrets Operator in OpenShift Dedicated

Enhance ODM to be able to use the HashiCorp Vault Secrets operator to store secrets and config maps.
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Delivered

Include the time in the last change field in the component list view of the rule project

Product: IBM Operational Decision Manager It is required to display the date and time of the changes that have been made in the objects of the rule projects, for example rule flows, rules, etc. Currently in Decision Center 8.11 - Business Console ...
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Delivered

automate Ifix to registry

The current process is to login to fix central , download, unzip, load docker images, and push to my registry. It would be great if the ifix was directly accessible in the registry or any process to automate it.
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Delivered

Manage default values in decision tables as previously possible in RTS

My users used to define default values in their decision table in RTS. They are not able to do it now in BC.
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Delivered

Provide the ability to use custom editor for simulation input data

Simulation created with a custom data provider often use input data set in the definition of the simulation. They are used to control the behavior of the data provider during the simulation. This input might have values that comes from another ser...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Delivered

We need access control to block report generation for specific roles

We have created read-only roles for projects and the users can view the rule content in the decision center. But they shouldn't be allowed to copy the data outside. The Export project is one gap and we have already raised an RFE to get access cont...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Delivered