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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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Pinned ideas

PINNED Filter UI enables having OR between filters (not just AND)
Users want to filter cases for client1 OR client2. They can't without creating a custom filter with javascript -- which they don't like at all
PINNED SQL statements in Dashboard Widgets
I think using SQL statements in widgets would be great to leverage the entire potential of the data uploaded to IBM Process Mining. Lots of important and helpful information cannot be displayed today as it's only SQL-like. I don't think that using...

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Is there a smarter / different way we can accomplish profile variables in Decision Central?

We create profile variables to capture dynamic and changing values, trying to find is there a smarter / different way we can accomplish profile variables in Decision Central?. More details will be provided once we have a case engineer assigned
4 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

At least once a day users will have to restart redhat because it just gets stuck spinning on something.

At least once a day users will have to restart redhat because it just gets stuck spinning on something. Please investigate in the back end to find the root cause as we are unable to write rules
4 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

Unit testing is inconsistent in it's results.

Unit testing is inconsistent in it's results. Sometimes it fails multiple times, then suddenly passes when tested later with no other changes.
4 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

Redhat Decision Manager and Github Sync

The code is written in redhat decision manager and it is synced into Github for version controlling. In a scenario when we delete a branch(s) from RedHat – then the action is not synced into Github. The two solutions are not talking to each other ...
4 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

Task mining - adding an option of record all activities

Task mining - adding an option to record all activities (settings tab) Before you start recording, by default you have to provide a list of applications and websites. If the user will use applications that are not on the list during recording (e.g...
29 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

Is there a way for administrators to disable or restrict the PDF export (Print PDF) option for Viewer users?

Currently, there is no option to disable or restrict the PDF export option for Viewer users in IBM Blueworks Live. This limitation poses a challenge for administrators who need more control over document sharing and export permissions. Are there a...
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Support for Tracability, OpenTelemetry and Instrumentation to be able to use tools like Jaeger,Kiali

There is need for tracing global transaction/request ID that starts with the platform UI and gets propagated to the various layers/components of CP4BA so that one can follow the transaction. Our clients are using OpenShift Service Mesh ( Istio ) a...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Not under consideration

Support for Service Mesh/ISTIO on OpenShift for CP4BA

Support for Service Mesh in CP4BA would be very helpful in enterprise installations. ISTIO is very popular and often this is a required by our clients. currently CP4BA does not support Service Mesh. This is helpful for: - mTLS (Mutual Transport La...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Ability to filter/find rules artifacts by their "LOCKED" status

Admins need a better way to find and unlock rules left locked by departing or vacationing employees. The current Query capability is close, but having the ability to actually filter by the locked status of a rule artifact would reduce the effort a...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Collector HANA Application

we are looking for solution to integrate Cognos 11.1 with SAP HANA Application
over 5 years ago in Content Collector for SAP 0 Not under consideration