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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).


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

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ODM Cloud direct zip file

By making the latest ifix with jdk, plugins and eclipse in a zip file available for download on the IBM ODM cloud portal, we can simplify the process for customers and ensure that everyone - clients and support teams alike - are on the same page. ...
1 day ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Decision Center admin section should have placeholder to view all rules locked by different or specific users to unlock

This is helpful when business users are accidentally locking the rules in case session expires and forgot to unlock them. In this case no one else will be able to work on the specific rule unless its lock is released by admin. Admin has difficulty...
3 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Ability to organise BC queries in folder

Currently queries are organised in BC in a flat structure. Without any level of hierarchies, it is cumbersome to search the queries especially when the number of queries exceed a few hundreds. Queries are also essential to defining decision operat...
5 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Submitted

mTLS support for ODM on Kubernetes required for Apigee integration

mTLS (mutual TLS) protocol is required for ODM on K8S for Apigee integration. Mathias Mouly has stated that it's possible to mTLS support for ODM on Kubernetes See Slack thread: https://ibm-cloud.slack.com/archives/C7L0AD0PJ/p1737652228664479?thre...
8 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Enable a custom button in Decision Center to allow business users to check out all changes directly to a code repository (e.g., RTC or GitHub).

This feature would streamline the workflow by allowing business users to push their rule changes from Decision Center directly to a source code repository. It bridges the gap between rule authoring and DevOps processes, improving traceability, ver...
4 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Feature to change the parameter ilog.rules.teamserver.transaction.timeout from UI

During a timeout issue, the user wants to change the above value as per the document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/odm/9.0.0?topic=reference-decision-center-parameters This requires many steps in up-packaging and re-packaging the war file. It would ...
5 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Decision Center should have filtering criteria as toggle hierarchical view while authoring the rules

Decision Center should have filtering criteria as toggle hierarchical view while authoring the rules. This helps the business user to filter the condition for the rule which they want to verbalize based on the Keyword. This was available in ODM Sa...
17 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Tag value should be more flexible to allow REST Response JSON example to handle multiple values for a property

Currently, the IlrTag value is set to a String.Because of this, when setting multiple values to a property, then retrieving this value with REST API: /v1/projects/{projectId}/rules the result is a single string with the multiple values as one comm...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Future consideration

Make ODM compatible with EC2 Graviton instances

Itaú Bank uses ODM on AWS in an ECS cluster with Docker Containers and EC2 instances. The company is aiming to use EC2 Graviton instances to reduce costs and improve performance, but currently, ODM is not compatible with these instances. The goal ...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

EC to BC migration: Business rule version history no longer shows the "Used In"

When you look at a rule history in the Enterprise Console, you get a column "Used In" It shows for each version which branches / baseline uses this version of the rule. However, this information is missing in the Business Console. Not available in...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Future consideration