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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 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...
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

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Accessing ruleset property values from within java XOM

When defining a RuleApp deployment for a Decision Service in either Decision Center or Rule Designer, we can define 'Ruleset Properties' key-value pairs. However, there does not appear to be a way to use the documented public API to access the pro...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Rule execution server access control

We are looking for the admin privilege's for the monitoring group except ruleapp deployments.
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Update .Net to a more recent long term supported release (LTSR)

Our DataCap Custom Action Libraries cannot be written at a .Net version higher than 4.7.2 in order for DataCap to use them. Our product is currently targeting .Net 8. While some conponents are shareable across the two version using .Net standard, ...
5 months ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

In BPM, we need to have details of last login of a user and feature to enable or disable user if last login is greater than 30 days

It is useful to sort out only active users frequently using MDM. We need a feature to enable or disable an LDAP user based on last login of LDAP user in application. We also need a feature to delete the LDAP user from MDM application. This feature...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow to use config map/secret to mount files to ODM pod

The client have some common 3rd party library jar files shared by different rulesets, instead of putting them in XOM lib for each ruleset, they want these classes to be loaded only once. So they are fine to use downloadURL for these files. But the...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

Enable Configuration of "Allows Null Values" Parameter for Database Index Creation in ACCE

We would like to request an enhancement to the FileNet Content Platform Engine (CPE) ACCE to address a limitation in the current functionality regarding database index creation. Problem Statement: When creating database indexes via ACCE, the "Allo...
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Update CMOD to create UUID V7 values for Unique ID fields

We would like CMOD to create UUID Version 7 (timestamp+random) instead of UUID Version 4 (all random) for Unique ID fields as it would improve the database indexes for these fields. Version 4 and version 7 UUIDs can co-exist since they are identif...
6 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

arsload option to suppress creation of Unique IDs

We have recently started using the Unique ID field in application groups as a permanent key to retrieve objects from CMOD.However, when rebuilding application groups using arsdoc get and arsload, the previously assigned Unique IDs will be thrown a...
6 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Future consideration

BC - Ability to better organise and manage queries

When managing queries in the Business Console under a rules project, it is not possible to organise queries into subfolders or perform other tasks that are normally available for other decision artefacts, like locking/unlocking and filtering. Now ...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

BC - Action rule contents not wrapped in the explore view.

Business users working with a large number of action rules, some of which have very long conditions and actions. When viewing the action rules in business console the business users the content is not wrapped but rather requires excessive scrollin...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration