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).


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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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IBM ODM Compatibility with AWS Bottlerocket Container OS

Support for running IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) using AWS Bottlerocket OS. This OS is required for security and hardening standards, and we would like IBM ODM to be certified/validated for this environment
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Enable Support for Secrets Store CSI for FNCM Standalone CNCF

To ensure feature parity with other DBA products (ODM on CNCF - existing; CP4BA - considered), the option to integrate FileNet Content Manager with external secrets stores that support Secret Store CSI Driver for additional security is important. ...
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Under review

Ability to add a Comment to the Rule Artifact in the "DO" of a Query

Currently we can add Documentation to Rule Artifacts in the DO part of a Query. But we cannot add comment to that artifact.However this comment section is more adapted to audit than the documentation.
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Support direct upgrade from CP4BA 24.0.1 to CP4BA 26.0.0 on Openshift

We moved to BAW 24.0.1 traditional because it was the first version in which process instance migration from traditional to containers was possible. Since we wanted to move to containers quickly we did not wait for the 25.0.0 release. After we hav...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

IBM Content Navigator and Change Class with Entrytmplates: original entry template should be set as default selection

When checking in a document with an entry template in the ICN, the original entry template is not automatically set as the default. Users are forced to manually select an entry template even when they have no intention of changing it. ### Current ...
3 months ago in Content Navigator Under review

Requesting an enhancement to ARSJESD TLS connection handling so that malformed, mismatched, or incorrectly configured TLS connection attempts are rejected gracefully at the session level without causing the ARSJESD process to terminate.

The client has implemented TLS with ARSJESD in CMOD 10.5.0.10 on Linux. Correctly configured TLS connections work. However, when a user or upstream mainframe sender attempts to connect using TLS incorrectly, ARSJESD logs a TLS handshake failure an...
2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) Under review

Add a Content Navigator custom URL to edit ands co-edit documents with Office Online Server (and Office365 SaaS in the future)

IBM Content Navigator allows users to edit Office documents with Office Online Server from the web interface; however, this functionality is not exposed through a supported custom URL.It would be very useful for customers to have a custom URL - si...
4 months ago in Content Navigator Under review

Visual Studio Plugin for ODM Rule Development

ODM provides Eclipse Rule Designer Plugin. None for Vistual Studio. VS is the IDE of choice for CoPilot. Need ability to leverage LLM capabilities using ODM regardless of persona ( Developer vs Business user) and use any model of choice
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Decision Center is not supporting active/active which is required to update DB sequences to move traffic

Currently, Decision Center does not support traffic in an active-active setup across data centers. This limitation prevents updating sequences when shifting traffic between data centers. We are looking for a permanent solution to address this limi...
27 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Configurable ressources for init-folder-readonlyfs container

We are using the official helm charts from https://github.com/IBM/charts/tree/master/repo/ibm-helmCurrently I am using: ibm-odm-prod-25.1.7.tgz Our multi tenant Openshift 4.18 cluster is totally relying on ressouce quotas for namespaces.For our OD...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

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