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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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Adding "extra signers" using the built-in DocuSign Plugin

The feedback from the field was that many customers like the DocuSign plugin. But currently our implementation offers only the access to static templates that are assigned to the user that is requesting a document to be signed. This means they hav...
about 2 months ago in Content Navigator 3 Delivered

Improve user experience when creating advanced filters with a filter bar approach and drag-drop options

With the tool's focus on process analysis, many of its end users do not have advanced skills in multiple development languages. This point, combined with the scenario in which some need to use advanced filters and custom metrics, generates the nee...
2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Delivered

Multiple user able to delete/edit connections in the Control Center

Today when a connection is created in the Control Center only the user who created can edit and delete that connection. It will be useful to have more than one user with this permission to avoid the dependencies. Imagine a scenario in which the de...
3 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Delivered

When using the API to export Dashboards, the API should first apply any saved filters to the output exported to the .csv file.

Currently when exporting the dashboard no saved filters are applied, which results in having to manually apply them to the .csv file produced using another tool.
5 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Delivered

Include Release creation date in Decision Center (DC) APIs - Specifically the one that pull all the releases for a decision service in DC

IBM DC provides APIs to extract all the releases for a decision service that includes most of the details except release creation date. This will help the customers who are adopting IBM ODM as enterprise rules engine & have audit/accountabilit...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Delivered

Avoid extra clic for end users by choosing LDAP or SAML

When connecting with SSO avoid for end user extra clic for choosing the correct method to connect when the method is known
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

Add ODM support for HashiCorp Vault Secrets Operator in OpenShift Dedicated

Enhance ODM to be able to use the HashiCorp Vault Secrets operator to store secrets and config maps.
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Delivered

Support for zVM V7.3 and later for current (21.0.3.1) and future BAW releases running on zlinux.

We need to have support for zVM 7.3 and later for BAW 21.0.3.1 and later because of the expected EOL for zVM in 2024Q4. Not having this is severly hindering our LCM for zVM.
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Monitoring ODM-8.12 on certified kubernetes with mpMetrics-5.0 in ODM 8.12.00

We are trying to monitor ODM apps with mpMetrics functionality provided by OpenLiberty, following the documents below: https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/reference/feature/mpMetrics-5.0.html https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/introduction-monitori...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Delivered

Process Mining: Enable re-usage of Process App for the same process in order to add more data

In the current state of the product (version 1.14.1), Process Apps can be used once to create a process in IBM Process Mining. If the use case requires adding more data later on, this is only possible by manually uploading the data as csv data set...
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Delivered