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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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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 1 month ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

EC to BC migration: Business rule version history no longer shows the "Used In"

When you look at a rule history in the Enterprise Console, you get a column "Used In" It shows for each version which branches / baseline uses this version of the rule. However, this information is missing in the Business Console. Not available in...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Under review

Visible indicator that Rule Documentation has been set

When browsing to a rule in Decision Center, the Documentation section is not visible. It is hidden behind a click on the Details button.. Nothing draws the attention of the rule writer to the fact that there actually is some relevant snippet of do...
8 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

Need access to property or an API which can return XU pool size/Thread pool being used on given runtime container at any given time.

Why is it Useful ?? By monitoring thread pool size and resource usage, you can identify the upcoming issues and optimize performance. This helps in ensuring that the system is neither underutilized nor overwhelmed. It allows for better management ...
14 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Enhance "View Title" display update during "View Full Report" at page level

We store the mainframe batch jobs log information in CMOD at the DD_NAME level, with the DD_NAME field set as the "View Title". However, when we select "View Full Report" for a job in CMOD thick client 10.5.8, the "View Title" does not change as w...
8 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

Implementation of a systemic lock and observability in rule approval.

Implementation of a systemic lock with dual control for rule approval, ensuring that the creation, modification, or deletion of parameterized rules in the ODM engine is reviewed. Ensuring that rules were reviewed and tested before implementing pro...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Enhance Verbalization Display in New Editor to Support Full Rule Descriptions

In version 8.12, the new editor truncates rule verbalization to 50 characters, making it difficult for users to view complete rule descriptions. The new editor should support word wrap or provide an option to view the full verbalization of rules, ...
19 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

It would be great to export metadatas into a UTF-8 without BOM txt file.

By default the export actions only permits to export into a UTF-8 BOM or UTF-16 BOM.It would be great to export metadatas into a UTF-8 without BOM txt file. And why not allowing other encoding (ie : ANSI, CP1252) ? It could be a modification of th...
3 months ago in Datacap 0 Under review

Ability to download a printable copy of the snapshot comparison

Our teams of business users actively maintain and deploy business rules using the Business Console. Snapshot is a key feature they use to draw comparisons between two deployments (snapshots automatically created at each deployment). They frequentl...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

IBM Daeja Viewer support for "XRechnungen"

An xInvoice (short for xRechnung in German) is a standardized electronic invoice format specifically developed for exchanging invoices with government authorities and public institutions in Germany. It is based on European standards (EN 16931) and...
about 1 month ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Under review