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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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1og4j2.x support in CM 8.6

Customer wants CM 8.6 to use log4j2.x. Currently, log4j1.x is used in CM 86, which is not maintained any more
over 2 years ago in Content Manager (CM8) 0 Not under consideration

Patch ruleapp deployment for rule releases

Instead of generating a full ruleapp jar all the time, if a patch file is created to deploy only the new changes (for both rule execution server and embedded execution, also for both file-based and DB-based deployment), it may help to optimize the...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Limit reconciliation processing in ICP4BA operator pod

The operator pod runs a constantly active reconciliation loop which checks the settings of the Custom Resource against the configuration of the Kubernetes/OpenShift items created by the CR settings. For ODM and other components, this loop is usefu...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Not under consideration

Improve the hover box with reference link on Glossary items

The black hover box in the Details pane is difficult to navigate. The user must hover and enter the box just exactly in order to get to the reference link contained in the hover box. Improve the hover box so that so that navigation into the hover ...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Not under consideration

Guides for decision center webhook notifications other than Slack

You have a guide for setting up decision center notifications using Slack and Node.js. This is not suitable for all clients though. Many companies use Teams and Outlook, and there is no mention of how to set up these. You provide the Slack folder ...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Guides for decision center webhook notifications other than Slack

You have a guide for setting up decision center notifications using Slack and Node.js. This is not suitable for all clients though. Many companies use Teams and Outlook, and there is no mention of how to set up these. You provide the Slack folder ...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Improve Toolbar search

Currently the search field in the Toolbar only returns results for the exact match and this can be much more helpful if it were more flexible. For example, when searching for the "Click on Web Page" command, if you input "click web", "web click", ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Add official support for mTLS to IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation

For the standalone version of Operation Decision Manager, there are the changes that are needed in server.xml to enable mTLS. However, in the Cloud Pak version, there is no official support to add the required changes (clientAuthenticationSupporte...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

add observers in IlrSessionRequest

It is not possible today to add using code Observers to engine in a stateless Session 's engine except using observers in Rules/BOM. As it is not always possible to have access to rules for technical tuning (business users are editing the rules), ...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to send message from throw (send) message event to multiple catch (receive) message events in one or more processes

In order for multiple spawned processes to be "linked" via send/receive message events, send event should be able to send message to multiple receive message events in one or more processes. Basically provide ability for "Multiple" event type.
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration