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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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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...

All ideas

ODM Support for Ubuntu 24.04

Currently, ODM supports up to version 22.04 of Ubuntu. However, customers are pushing to migrate to Ubuntu 24.04, which offers enhanced security, performance, and long-term support. It’s essential for ODM to stay compatible with the latest infrast...
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Decision Center needs to provide REST API based Microsoft Active Directory connection to Sync group users

Currently, Decision Center provides LDAP and SCIM based connections for user registry. We use Microsoft Active Directory as a user registry and it doesn't support LDAP or SCIM. We know that, Microsoft Active Directory does not have a publicly expo...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Decision Center does not have Rest API to Enforce Project Security

Currently, we use the following manual procedure to Enforce Project Security in Decision Center Console: Login to Decision Center Console Click on "Project Security" tab Hover mouse over "Branch/Project" row Click on "Pencil Icon" New popup window...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Allow FDM (FileNet Deployment Manager) using security principals to map marking sets from environment to environment (ie dev to qa).

Marking sets are unique to an environment and this is an easier way to make that association known
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Bring back the right-click option to the Click Windows Command

This feature has been removed in the latest IBM RPA offering of 21.0.2 without a suitable replacement.
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Make it possible to set TaskAtRiskDate

Our customer is using the TaskAtRiskDate to determine which tasks needs to get immediate attention.A task at risk date which is calculated with historical duration of other tasks is useless for them.This needs to be calculated by logic which can d...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enhance Viewer functionality

Currently In Blueworks live Viewers do not have the following functionality 1. Not able to export process maps as excel file( from folder level or from process) 2. Not able to do word export of the process maps 3. Details pane does not show meta d...
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Support BAW Designer for CNCF

Business Automation Workflow has been made available on CNCF Kubernetes clusters. However, it's nowhere documented that this does not cover the development environment (workflow center). For consistency, clients ask for a CNCF version of the devel...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Add a parameter to be able to remove the remove the X-XSS-Protection from the headers on Containers

When you open the web.xml for the res.war or the DecisionRunner.war, and search for "X-XSS-Protection" you will find this setting: <init-param><param-name>X-XSS-Protection</param-name><param-value>1; mode=block</param-va...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

Robotic Framework

I developed, at the bank where I work, an internal framework aimed at more experienced developers, focused on building complex and enterprise-grade processes, with the goal of increasing productivity, standardization, and robustness. The framework...
8 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted