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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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Automation Decision Services (ADS)

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MySql8 should be supported by ODM

There is a customer in medical and health industry. They are using ODM8.8 product to build a clinical decision support system. Now the customer are complaining MySql8 is not supported by ODM8.8, even though MySql5.7 is OK. IBM's official website's...
about 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 4 Delivered

ODM should support one of the latest Oracle database versions

We are running on one of the latest ODM versions - 8.10.3 and are using Oracle 12.1.0 as back end database. There is a DB upgrade taking place in our organization from current version to 19.6.0. The applications which ODM interacts with are all se...
about 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 5 Delivered

Complete diff between snapshots in DC

Limitation:if a user updates an Excel file as a resource file and then updates some dynamic domains in the BOM, none of these changes are listed in the compare view between 2 snapshots (or between a snapshot and the current state) I did check with...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Delivered

DE: Support for custom methods(operators) in decision tables

We are unable to define custom methods in boot.bom to use in decision tables for DE. Extending boot.bom works only for classic engine, and IBM support clarified that boot.bom is hardcoded for DE which is different than the one used for classic eng...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Delivered

Provide an option to view/filter BOM/Vocabulary data from the DC UI

Provide an option to view/filter BOM/Vocabulary data from the DC UI (Business Console), it will be useful to verify after publishing the data to DC and also to debug issues.
almost 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Delivered

Populate meta data of used xom/xom variables/xom methods for each rule and associated ruleflows in the extracted ruleset

Kindly populate metadata about the used xom/xom variables/xom methods for each rule and the associated rule flow conditions in the extracted ruleset.
about 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Delivered

Cleanup unused bom/xom/b2x in the ruleset jar

When we extract a ruleapp from decision center, the ruleset jar contains all the bom (com.ibm.ia.engine.bom)/b2x(b2x.b2x)/in[out] parameters(com.ibm.rules.engine.signature.xml) under the "\ruleset.dsar\RULES_ENGINE\default\resources\ruleset\" fold...
about 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 4 Delivered