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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:

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

[REST] Enable Customization of Auto-Generated REST Endpoints

Epic Description:Currently, REST endpoints are automatically generated, but there is a limitation in customizing the generated code. Specifically, users are unable to add custom logic such as headers to the REST interface. This epic aims to addres...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

ODM on Cloud: Enhance Decision Center Deploy REST API

ODMoC is limited by a 2-minute timeout on API requests. Whenever a response to a request is not sent within 2 minutes, the proxy sends a response with an HTTP 524 error code. Later, when the server finally sends the response, the proxy does not fo...
about 4 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Enable scesim files editing on Canvas

For editing scesim files using Canvas, it only supports BAMOE Developer Tools at the time. BAMOE Canvas is not supported. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibamoe/9.0.x?topic=guide-business-central However client is hoping to replace Business Central wi...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 3 Future consideration

FileNet tolerance for multiple LDAP directory configurations in case one of LDAP configuration is down

Please refer to previous FER https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/BACSD-I-104 In some users scenario, Filenet has multiple LDAP Directory configurations,DCOs. For some directory configuration only for external user authentication, LDAP server might not be ...
about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Admin Ability to Disable File Attachment

Admin users should have the ability to disable file attachment in spaces they control.
about 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Be able to see the "Expected" result also in the Test Suite generated excel report file

Currently, when we run the Test Suite, we can see in the report both the Expected value and the output value. However, if we chose to generate an Excel file with the output, we get in that Excel file the input value and the output value, but not t...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Download PDF report

It would be good to have the option to download/print the reports as PDF or some other format, as this is currently not possible (not all scenarios are shown in the print through the browser, scenarios are not expanded to show all tests...).
about 9 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Support Kerberos with BPMConfig

Install and upgrade of Business Automation Workflow environments requires use of BPMConfig command with a properties file; the properties file references user identities and database connections and requires passwords. We need to support use of Ke...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Time-based filter for Swagger "/bpm/processes" and "/bpm/user-tasks" APIs.

Swagger "/bpm/processes" and "/bpm/user-tasks" APIs can retrieve and get a list of process and task instances with instance data. These APIs can get instance data with "optional_parts=data". So, the results can be used as audit data of instances f...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Directly Support OAuth when invoking a REST service

Currently to use OAuth when invoking a REST service, you must use JavaScript as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/23.x?topic=service-invoking-rest It would be very useful to have OAuth directly supported like basic auth and API Key ...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration