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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:

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,

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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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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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Add the option 'Right Click' to command Click on Web Page

It would be useful to add this enhancment to the command to avoid unnecessary workrounds ( get coordinates of element via window indentifications, attaching window and use mouse command ). This workround also proved more times ineffective or was n...
about 10 hours ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Ability to create multiple RES server instances within the same instance of CP4BA so that customers can deploy different RuleApps to different RES servers as needed.

Current Situation: Customers who are running ODM on CP4BA today can deploy their RuleApps to only one instance of RES. For a small number of RuleApps this is not an issue, however, when the number of RuleApps grow dramatically and those applicatio...
about 3 hours ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

BC - Business rule documentation to include hyperlinks for URLs

Our business users frequently make references to external documentations to support the business case of the rule. They use the documentation field on the business rule to record these external references as URL. When exploring these business rule...
about 17 hours ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Retaining the Content Type for migrated documents.

We have implemented ICC-SharePoint with FileNet. We were able to migrate the SharePoint documents to FileNet successfully (with Leave item and Replace link). However we have noticed that the migrated document's Content Type gets changed to 'Migrat...
24 minutes ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Submitted

An autonomous Wall-Drawing Hovering Device (WDHD) that combines drone technology with precision paint application, capable of creating large-scale designs on vertical surfaces for artistic, advertising, and industrial purposes.

### **Description** The Wall-Drawing Hovering Device (WDHD) is an autonomous drone system equipped with advanced hovering and precision paint application technology. It is designed to navigate vertical surfaces and apply paint or other coatings to...
about 11 hours ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

SCIM 2.0 support for User and Group management on CP4BA SaaS offering

Most customers have established processes for requesting user access to specific LDAP (Active Directory or other) groups. Those groups are often leveraged to control permissions in BAW process or case solutions. Unfortunately, in CP4BA SaaS offeri...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Gitlab support for DMOE

Mortgage service company standardizes on Gitlab and they need to integrate Gitlub to their DMOE environment
6 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Submitted

Return the full path (not just the immediate parent folder) of the business rule element in the DC REST API's.

Most business now employ DC REST API's for business reporting for business rules deployed in Business Console. The REST API's json response shows the listing all the business rules under the element list. For each business rules (both action rules...
7 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Log a Xpath of impacted transformation files

At the moment both BPM and BAW logs only impact transaction file (xsl or custom xsl ) but that is very challenging and time-consuming task to narrow down a root cause, so it would be great if new feature can be added to log failure xpath and impac...
3 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Allow to connect Integration Designer to Workflow sever for UTE

As current Integration Designer 23.02 has 2 related vulnerabilities and client systems are not allowing to install complete IID UTE version due to security restriction, it would be helpful if IID allows to connect remote Runtime BAW (workflow server)
3 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted