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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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Unit Testing - requiring an option to test the string joined lists (e.g. retailer id + merchant id in a list) in our unit testing

Would be good to have an ability to test the string joined lists (e.g. retailer id + merchant id in a list) in our unit testing. This will help us to reduce the time and effort required to author rules
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Future consideration

Unit test - require an ability to import all data objects related to the rule

We need a way of being able to create a test and "import" all the fields/data objects within a specific rule. This part of the process takes about 20 minutes.Every time a rule is created it takes nearly 20 mins to populate the data fields
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Future consideration

Unit Test does not provide details on the cause of failure

When a test fails: Right now it just says it failed. You then have to trial and error to see which field is correct and isn't by leaving blanks and retesting. So would be good to skip that and be able to say which fields were correct and which wer...
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Future consideration

Validation check passing in rules authoring but failing in test execution

Having some issue with validate check passing in DC where a specific import is missing, i.e. import com.abc.api.product.applicant.Income. It’s passing validate check however later on our testing is throwing errors. Can we check in DC if there is a...
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Not under consideration

Unique Rule ID - Require an unique rule id to be generated for every rule before storing to github

Currently there is no unique rule id or number for each rule.Require an unique rule id to be generated for every rule before storing to github.Unable to uniquely identify the rules or order by id
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Not under consideration

Redhat Decision Manager and Github Sync

The code is written in redhat decision manager and it is synced into Github for version controlling. In a scenario when we delete a branch(s) from RedHat – then the action is not synced into Github. The two solutions are not talking to each other ...
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

Enable the Process Instance Migration tool to support Mutual TLS on BAMOE 8.x

Customer has security restricitons that prevent them to store user and password credentials in plain text.
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

zRES logging behaviour - integration with z/OS Console

Hi all, ODM must be highly available (no outages allowed) and we must be able to react on very short notice (real-time) if a problem occurs. If ODM is not responding for whatever reason, all transactions will be blocked/cannot be executed. Current...
almost 8 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Provide a Machine Learning Provider configuration option for CP4D - Watson ML

CP4BA - ADS v22.0.2 provides the ability to integrate with a Watson ML configured / running on IBM Cloud. The authentication method for this integration relies on the API Key to retrieve a token to be able to consume a deployed service as document...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Do not display the application related information to the user during error handling

Our security team found a vulnerability with the ODM product. It says application related errors are present in the logs, keep the error messages as generic as possible. Do not display the application related information to the user during error h...
about 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration