Digital Business Automation Ideas


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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:

Search existing ideas

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,

Post your ideas

  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

    Introduce authoring‑time validation (or mandatory warning) in IBM Operational Decision Manager to prevent saving decision table preconditions that contain unresolved placeholders (e.g., <a number>), which currently pass validation but fail during deployment.

    IBM ODM allows users to save decision table preconditions that include unresolved placeholders without errors or warnings. Although these preconditions appear valid at design time, they consistently cause build or deployment failures. This creates...
    about 17 hours ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

    Add official support for Apache Kafka 4.x (including 4.1.1) in IBM ODM Decision Server Runtime.

    Currently, IBM ODM 9.5.0.1 includes a Kafka client version 3.9.1 and is officially supported only against Kafka 3.x environments per the published compatibility matrix. Upgrading Kafka infrastructure to version 4.1.1 (e.g., IBM Event Streams 4.1.1...
    8 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

    AI decision intelligent in ODM

    Based on a given task, AI will be able to identify the decision service, create the change release, make change to the rule/decision table, and deploy the changes to the lower environment.
    2 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

    Add config option to decision center to reduce information disclosure in Deployments tab

    Right now the Deployments tab is returning more information than needed. The user name and the URL of the target deployment console is returned in the GET request. Impact: This information is not needed in the UI, and it might be of aid in attacks...
    about 16 hours ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

    Support for JBoss EAP 8.1

    The last maintenance update for JBoss EAP 8.0 was an 2026-03-05 and future updates will only be provided for JBoss EAP 8.1 (https://access.redhat.com/articles/7039745) To get a supported configuration we need official Support for JBoss 8.1 with OD...
    7 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

    Add support in IBM Operational Decision Manager Decision Center to export decision tables directly as CSV or flat files, including support through the Decision Center API.

    Today, Decision Center Business Console allows exporting decision tables as Excel files only. There is currently no standard capability to directly export decision tables as CSV or flat files, and no Decision Center API support for this type of ex...
    7 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

    Native Deployment scheduling feature within IBM Decision Center

    We recommend introducing a native deployment scheduling feature within IBM Decision Center. This capability would allow business users to define a specific date and time for deploying rule changes to the Decision Server without requiring external ...
    about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

    Ability to pre populate query parameter from an external datasource

    The customer's business users are heavy users of the the simulation feature. They have simulation configuration with query parameters which accept values for filtering the values of the simulation scenarios. There are times when the business users...
    about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

    Configuration option to default filter to "All Types" in Decision Center

    I'm reaching out regarding the filter settings in Decision Center. Currently, the filter is persisted for each user, but there's no option to default it to "All Types" for all users or branches. Could you please consider adding a feature to allow ...
    9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    Add en_GB to the default list of locales in the Business Console

    Currently en_GB is supported in Rule Designer: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/odm/9.5.0?topic=designer-opening-rule-in-specific-locale However, this is not a language that is available by default in the pre-set languages of BC: https://www.ibm.com/do...
    29 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Is a defect

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