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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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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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.
4 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

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
19 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 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...
about 1 month ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) Under review

Datacap Navigator Verify - Request the ability to execute an Alternate Task Profile and submit the batch in a single step

In clients system, an additional task profile was developed that allows users to reject a batch from Datacap Navigator during the Verify step. To complete this process, the user must first click the Reject Batch button and then click Submit to fin...
about 1 month ago in Datacap Under review

Provide an option to exclude unused rule flows during rule app archive generation. Currently system supports rule-level filtering through query parameters (e.g., status and tags), similar filtering capabilities are not extended to rule flows, leading to the inclusion of redundant artifacts in the archive.

In the current application, certain rule flows are maintained in Decision Center exclusively for testing purposes, and there is a need to exclude these non-production flows during deployment to the Decision Server. While the platform currently sup...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Business user expecting to add inline comments or block comments in rule content. Currently we have capability to add comments in Documentation section however business user cannot add comments specific to any lines and for any block.

This will help business users better understand the rule functionality and enable them to maintain a clear change log directly within the rules.
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Datacap Navigator 9.19 shortcut in Job Monitor to contain a total count of bathes for the task.

Please see example in screen print. For example: I have two shortcuts. One for "navigator scan" shortcut and one for Verify shortcut. Customer would like a total count in parentheses on "Navigator Scan" total and the same for Verify short customer
about 1 month ago in Content and Capture Services - other Under review

We wish ODM would make Decision Governance Framework as a default so that application teams can defaulted to use it rather than giving them an option.

Security compliance in our organization and they follow Decision Governance Framework can dra
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

IBM ODM Helm Support for additional env variables

Support a configs that allows additional Environment Variables be added to helm without manual edit of Helm
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Integrate ODM RuleDesigner with IntelliJ and VS Code

Most organizations today have standardized on IntelliJ IDEA and VS Code for development, along with proprietary and supported extensions, rather than Eclipse. Using IntelliJ or VS Code would also make it easier to fully leverage Copilot features—s...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

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