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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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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...
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future 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), ...
almost 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Customizable Invitations

I'd like to see the ability to customize invitations that are sent for new users to set up their accounts. Simplifying the invitations can avoid any confusion.
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Pdf Option For Process Export API

For the API call …/bwl/blueprints/{blueprint-id}/export… add the option of PDF for parameter Format.
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Add DB Trace logging per Objectstore

It would be great if DB trace logging could be enabled per object store in addition system wide. This would reduce the amount of data in the trace and make it simpler to troubleshoot.
almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

CP4BA BAW needs to meet performance requirement in a headless system orchestration with scaling with containers

CP4BA BAW needs to meet performance requirement in a headless system orchestration with scaling with containers.
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Text Annotation Using Rich Text Formatting

The addition of Text Annotation is greatly appreciated and allowing rich text formatting would make it much more useful. (You give a mouse a cookie...)
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Automatic publication after Approval

If a process blueprint is released (approved) via a process app, an editor must manually "unpublish" the previous version and manually publish the released process blueprint snapshot.Proposed Feature: After the final approval of the process bluepr...
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Have a field to inform the OCR DPI

When working with PDF data extraction, using OCR, the default DPI value of the "Get PDF Region Text" command is 110, leaving the image very small, reducing the accuracy of the result. Having a field where I can easily change this number and have I...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Future consideration

Propagate rule engine properties across branch/release merges

When testing with Excel spreadsheets, our ruleapp requires that the "Automatic exception handling in conditions" rule engine flag be set. Unfortunately, when a branch is merged, either to another branch or a release change activity, this flag is l...
12 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration