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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 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

All ideas

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Ability to conduct a Comparison on BOM changes at the SnapShot level in Decision Center.

Development teams trying to determine what code changes were made by Business Teams use the Comparison feature on the current state of the release with the initial snapshot of when the release was created. Currently, BOM comparison is not availabl...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Delivered

Monitoring ODM-8.12 on certified kubernetes with mpMetrics-5.0 in ODM 8.12.00

We are trying to monitor ODM apps with mpMetrics functionality provided by OpenLiberty, following the documents below: https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/reference/feature/mpMetrics-5.0.html https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/introduction-monitori...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Delivered

View - ECM Document Explorer - Filter document type

In the UI toolkit, there is a View called "ECM Document Explorer". This view is used to add some documents, folder, display documents ,... The problem is when adding a new document, all the document classes are displayed. There is no way to filter...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Auto-sizing and preferences for portal column widths

Table view in process portal (work or a saved search) uses a very conservative width-distribution, leaving some columns truncuted while others have lots of wasted space. Using IBM BPM Express 8.5.7.2017.06. Sub-requests of extension, in order of i...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Add Decision Center REST API to Generate Release Reports

We would like to request that a new Decision Center REST API be added to the platform that will generate a Rule Report PDF file similar to what occurs when running a query report within Decision Center. Initial version does not need to allow for q...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Delivered

Update of Rules Designer to work in latest versions of Eclipse IDE

IBM Support Case Reference: TS003381904 The latest available version of the ODM Rules designer (8.10.3) does not work with the current versions of the Eclipse IDE (4.14 or 4.15). This is preventing our developers from updating their IDE environmen...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 3 Delivered

Nutanix AHV support

Nutanix AHV(Acropolis Hypervisor) is becoming major hypervisor technology for enterprise use. IBM Business Automation Workflow should support Nutanix AHV as supported hypervisor technology.
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Decision Center - Business Console - Add ability for rtsUser to export decision service project

Non-technical users have the ability to use the business console in Decision Center however, they are not able to export their project from development to integration unless they are given administrative privileges such as rtsConfigManager. For ex...
almost 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Delivered

Add a property or switch to enable generating Kafka event for failed executions.

Customers in financial industry need ODM to generate Kafka events for failed executions same way as successful executions for auditiability, explainability, and compliance requirements. The current workaround is for the client app to monitor the H...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Delivered

Expose RESTful services from process app

Similar to the way we can define/expose Web Services in Process Designer, we'd like to be able to define RESTful services that can be exposed, including a swagger to be downloaded (analogously to the WSDL that is generated automatically when defin...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered