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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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API to get user IP /true client IP, user_agent, Session id/Public IP

Cybersecurity and defence teams are making it mandatory to log below details for each processApp when user tries to login, user performs some action in the application. Few details are available but details like True client IP, user_agent, session...
23 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

NMO should support new MS Office

NMO is a user experience well received by many business users of my client. Unfortunately, the new MS Office which Microsoft starts delivering does not support COM and VSTO add-ins. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/overview/off...
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Support configurable transaction timeouts for REST API operations in IBM ODM to improve CI/CD pipeline reliability.

Currently, IBM ODM only honors transaction timeout settings for the Business Console, while REST API operations do not reflect these configurations. This limitation affects use cases where long-running operations—such as importing branches or crea...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Add command to switch iframes for web automations with IBM RPA

Many webpages and especially ones which are being used to download various reports based on filters etc, but in general more robust pages, now usually include more then 1,2 iframes. It would be 100% flexibility and efficiency improvement if there ...
9 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

Disabling PVC checks in Workflow-operator

IBM Team, Workflow operator pod (which I believe unlike the content-operator) automatically checks for the PVC size, and If any configuration added under baw_configuration section it won't be picked up because of the following error: "PersistentVo...
24 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Under review

BAMOE Monitoring and Observability data

Hi Team, Currently BAMOE 9.2.1 doesn't provide any dashboard to view the BAMOE observability and monitoring data. It only provides a graphQL endpoints which we have to custom utilize for all the requirements. We need an interface/Dashboard for the...
24 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Future consideration

Enhanced User Tasks API with Comprehensive Filtering and Pagination

Summary Request for enhancement to the existing User Tasks API to include comprehensive filtering, pagination, and ordering capabilities that are currently missing from the standard API endpoint. Current State The existing User Tasks API (https://...
24 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 2 Functionality already exists

We want to be able to choose format for dates in exporting decision table to Excel.

in IBM ODM Decision Center 9.5, whenever we export a decision table to XLSX, dates are written in the format M/D/Y H:MM:SS AM/PM. Is there a possibility to change the format to Y-M-D HH:MM:SS. Example: Instead of 08/31/2025 03:00:00 PM, we would l...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

Need a mechanism in BAMOE to allow dynamic rule updates

Need a mechanism in BAMOE to allow dynamic rule updates so that business users can modify existing rules (e.g., add new conditions or fields) without going through the full redevelopment and redeployment lifecycle. Expecting to have this via custo...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Future consideration

Need to move xom-libraries folder in order to deploy the files that are built using Maven build command

Context: This is regarding the build command using maven. The customer is on 9.0/ Windows. He has multiple projects he used to build with eclipsec. But after upgrading to 9.0 he was trying build command. The customer used maven to build the sample...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration