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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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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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I see we can send the image to the models and get the extraction rather sending the OCR page text to watsonx.ai models. I see better accuracy for the terrible handwritten documents

I see we can send the image to the models and get the extraction rather sending the OCR page text to watsonx.ai models. I see better accuracy for the terrible handwritten documents
7 months ago in Datacap 2 Under review

Upgrade RRProcessor.exe as a 64-bit process

Currently, RRProcessor.exe runs as a 32-bit process, which limits the usable memory to 4GB. The process occasionally encounters out-of-memory errors and terminates unexpectedly. This issue stems from the inherent 4GB memory limit of 32-bit processes.
5 months ago in Datacap 3 Under review

Option to indicate inline or not inline variable output for decision service

New feature/option to allow a developer to indicate whether variable output for a decision service should be inline or not inline. The option would allow the output to include the original wrapper object.
6 days ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Under review

Cross-Project Search Capability

We would like to see a cross-project search capability in ADS. This capability would allow us to search across all projects to determine where an element is used/set. Right now, the search capability is limited to searching within a project.
6 days ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Under review

Option to customize the user context menu in decision tables

Since version 9 or 9.5, the 'Hidden' and 'Table Properties' options have been available to rules managers. Considering our usage of the tool, we would like to be able to modify the context menu from the business console in order to remove them. In...
6 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Add options to the cleanup tool to permanently delete all versions of specific artifacts

Currently, the cleanup tool (/v1/DBAdmin/cleanup REST API) helps reduce the database size when you have multiple versions of specific artifacts (such as DT or Test Suite). However the latest version and the original version remains in the database...
28 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Rule Consistency checks within Business Console

In the Enterprise Console it was possible for the rule author to run a rule consistency check against a specific query or from the 'analysis' page. In Business Console there is no such feature.
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

Request for BAMOE UI framework

Request for BAMOE UI framework, just like Pega UI framework. All the bpm products provide a framework for user interface like ibm baw [coaches] and all products. This feature is currently lacking in bamoe and user randomly creates a framework usin...
12 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Under review

Need custom base image, passthrough configuration for BAMOE CANVAS

Our organization needs canvas jdk to be changed. Also, all the images provided by IBM use edge termination on OpenShift. We want pass through configured for all the images. We had discusses this already with support and the ibm cnosultants working...
12 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Under review

Enhancements to the ARSDOC Commandline API

Hi, we think some enhancements to the ARSDOC CLI API would be helpful to anyone who uses it. We've noticed the behavior is slightly differently than the Desktop Application and ODWEK API, it also has a few things that with slight tweaks could help...
about 2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review