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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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  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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Automation Decision Services (ADS)

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Enable logging of deployer's username/ip when deploying ruleapps via RES console or Rule Designer

Our distributed team has several specialists responsible for developing and deploying rule apps to Production and Test environments. We do not use Decision Center. Our team deploys rule apps directly through RES Console. Currently there's no way t...
over 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

LocalDate and LocalDateTime

We want to use LocalDate and LocalDateTime instead of Java Util Date. Now we use Java Util Date and add an annotation @JsonFormat(timezone="Europe/Amsterdam", shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd").Timezone issues are a real head...
about 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

In ODM 811 Application, we want logs and event when build cache is invalidated

Please publish an event and also log a message whenever the DC cache is invalided for build due to any event (ex. bom change) / reason. Also include the specific action/change that caused the cache invalidation in the log/event msg.
over 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Allow clean configuration of XU pool with JBoss console

(from Case TS003025050) For JBoss environments, there is no a clean way to configure the XU pool sizes. Currently, the supported way (and not very well documented) is to modify the file ironjacamar.xml from the resource adapter that comes the prod...
about 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Requesting that Session Timeout Send Users to Login Page

Currently the session timeout in the Decision Center and Decision Server UIs only sends the user to the login page on the first request they make after their session expires. We're requesting that the UIs automatically move the users to the login ...
over 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Functionality already exists

Add ODM configuration to limit REST API responses from returning error details

During penetration testing, one of the scenarios that the tester performed on our deployed REST APIs was to provide erroneous requests on purpose. This caused ODM to return an error response with full details of the error. This was noted by the pe...
over 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Showing String-type value in Report

For ODM, it is only possible to show KPIs in Report. However, the data type of KPIs are limited. Is it possible to have a function to show other types of data in report? Such as String or Hashmap?
over 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Add Configuration Option to Only Keep a Finite Number of History Versions

Every time a decision model is saved, a new version is created, and there are currently no automated ways to delete old or unneeded versions. This is also true for ODM artifacts.
about 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to restrict Service Credentials access

Request enhancement to limit access of Service Credentials to specific decision services. Currently Service Credentials are allowed access to all available deployed services.
over 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

want the simultaneously windows scrolling down function back (when comparing rule differences)

The old version 8.7.1 DC one can moves Windows on both sides automatically when comparing rule differences, but the new version 8.11.0 DC will only move one side. You have to manually scroll down two windows to the same position on both sides whe...
over 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration