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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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IBM ODM 9.5 compatibility with Java 17

We would like to request IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) version 9.5 support and certified compatibility with Java 17 for ODM Embedded deployments. This is required for environments running on platforms such as AWS Glue, where Java 17 is cu...
4 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Request to Enable OpenTelemetry (OTel) Events in CP4BA for Datadog APM Integration

Request for enable OTEL Events in Cp4ba: We would like to request support for enabling OpenTelemetry (OTel) events, traces, and metrics within IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA). Our organization uses Datadog APM as the enterprise-stand...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Not under consideration

Request to Enable Datadog APM Integration for CP4BA Performance Monitoring

Request for integrate Cp4ba with Datadog APM tool: We would like to integrate the Datadog APM monitoring solution with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) to capture application performance metrics and transaction tracing. Since Datadog ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Not under consideration

Provide a public API for event log quality validation before upload

Currently, IBM Process Mining performs event log quality checks only after the file is uploaded to the platform. There is no REST API endpoint or publicly available tool that allows clients to validate their event logs before uploading them.
2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Not under consideration

Enhancement Request for API Usage Metrics and Payload Monitoring

Implement tracking for total hit count per API endpoint and capture precise request and response payload sizes (in bytes/KB) for all external SAP APIs consumed by the BAW application.
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

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.
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Restrict continuous scrolling across documents in Verify stage

In IBM Datacap Navigator (Verify stage), the image viewer allows continuous scrolling beyond the boundaries of the current document. When a user scrolls past the last page, it automatically loads the next document in the batch. This behavior leads...
3 months ago in Datacap Not under consideration

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...
4 months ago in Content Navigator Not under consideration

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...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Allow developers to format script code using CTRL + F

When writing JS code within Process Designer there is no possibility to format code using shortcut like CTRL + F. The only way to format is to copy code to other code editor, format it and then copy paste it back to Process Designer. There should ...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration