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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).


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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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Enable filters similar to DW for runtime events to Kafka

It would be great to have filters that control the level of detail captured in decision trace events. A customer has a custom solution for streaming decision events to Kafka. With over 2,000 rules, all rules are returned in the trace with only 4 r...
2 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Introducing Role Management

We need to have an option to create/manage role for admins. The 2nd part of the attached spreadsheet shows how it should look like.
4 days ago in Blueworks Live Submitted

configure a Credentials Manager using a Web Identity Provider in FileNet Content Platform Engine 5.7 to avoid managing and rotating static HMAC access keys for our Advanced Storage Areas. Our FileNet deployment runs in a GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) cluster on Google Cloud Platform.

We are planning to configure a Credentials Manager using a Web Identity Provider in FileNet Content Platform Engine 5.7 to avoid managing and rotating static HMAC access keys for our Advanced Storage Areas. Our FileNet deployment runs in a GKE (Go...
4 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

IBM ODM 9.5 compatibility with Docker 25

We would like to request IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) version 9.5 support and certified compatibility with Docker Engine version 25.x.
4 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

The Audit Logging service that targets Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Audit and Accountability controls

It is a strong business requirement to have audit logging for BAW traditional (self-managed/on-prem) platform while processing sensitive business data. It is a showstopper to automate processes which have sensitive data due to lacking of audit log...
5 days ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

OMEGA NEXUS 175 Omniscale Monitoring, Engineering, Governance, Analytics & Autonomous Infrastructure Network

IBM / DARPA Concept Submission Project Name OMEGA NEXUS 175 Omniscale Monitoring, Engineering, Governance, Analytics & Autonomous Infrastructure Network Vision OMEGA NEXUS 175 is a conceptual next-generation research platform focused on creati...

when using ICN sync the user should have an option to view the contents of the folder

when using ICN sync the user should have an option to view the contents of the folders locally without actually downloading the file. Ideally we should have an option to view the file names and only download the file locally when needed. This will...
10 days ago in Content Navigator Submitted

Ability to customize the title that appears when you launch ICN Sync client

We see the following title in the ICN sync client. The customer has deployed a customized navigator with an internal name. 1) We need a way to configure the text IBM Content Navigator Sync 2) We need option to support multiple languages This allow...
10 days ago in Content Navigator Submitted

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
10 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Change Usage Details tab for OCP deployment

The Usage Tab details doesn't reflect the exact Licensing purchased by the user, This is by design, although it would be helpful to change the configuration to reflect the exact License being used by the user's environment.
11 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration