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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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Allow configuration of automated check of properties on Process BluePrints

We have some properties that we require to be populated in certain instances. Right now we manually review for these to be present. It would be great if there were an option to automate these checks. For example, if Custom Property #1 is populated...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live Not under consideration

Allow pass thru of sql syntax using some kind of key work start/end structure to allow use of underlying RDBMS system capabilities

While using the search capabilities of FileNet Content Platform Engine, we have found some cases where the delivered SQL API for FileNet limits the capabilities of the underlying database software. Examples include parallelism, top XXX (row num li...
over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Not under consideration

Allow for choosing the storage location for FileNet Content Manager thumbnails.

Currently, FileNet Content Manager 5.5.5 only allows thumbnails to be stored in the Object Store database. Even at the smallest thumbnail size, this begins to take up a large amount of space in the database. We have a requirement to generate thumb...
about 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Not under consideration

RuleApp Versioning Policy in Business Console and Rule Designer

Currently, Deployment Configuration in Business Console and Rule Designer do not support RuleApp Versioning Policy. We need to deploy ruleapp from Business Console that automatically increments the version of the ruleapp when it is deployed.
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Studio feature to run a script starting from a specific command

It would be very useful for debugging and testing purposes if there was the ability in the IBM RPA Studio to run a script starting from a specific command rather than just from the beginning. So, especially in cases of large scripts, this would al...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Not under consideration

Implement the Token-Exchange protocol extension of oauth

Our organization's identity architects have been working with security architects and deemed a change needs to be made at our organization. They are calling for the eventual adoption of "Token Exchange" features of oauth. We integrate with 20+ tea...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Not under consideration

Allow securing of the connection using mTLS from a client to the Decision Center API for REST API calls

Allow securing of the connection using mTLS from a client to the Decision Center API for REST API calls. We require more security than basic authentication when making REST API calls. mTLS will require the server and client to have the same certif...
almost 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Automation Scripts using https instead of ping

We are suffering from not having ICMP ping enabled in the customer environment. We suggest to ensure all scripts provided by IBM use consistent method when checking connectivity. We would prefer using https
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Not under consideration

Res Console should provide warning message

RES console should provide warning message when we disable ruleset make sure at least one ruleset enables state.
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Jobs Page - Check bots that are running or pending

I want to request the following enhancements for the Jobs page: The Jobs page should filter and display both running and pending bots (if there are any at this state at the moment) , regardless of the specific script associated with them. This wil...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Not under consideration