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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,

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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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Implement Analysis function from RTS into BC

In RTS, we had a simple and very useful function: Analyze that shows error/warning on rules. Report it to BC
over 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

BAW product DBUpgrade Scripts to support SSL enabled datasource

We are unable to establish connection to backend DB via SSL enabled datasource during DB upgrade script execution as a part of BAW version upgrade . It's a known limitation that upgrade tools connect to the database outside the AppServer context a...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Include all ODM Rule Designer plugins in all install methods

As it is, optional plugins must be installed from separate Rule Designer update sites as documented at the bottom of https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/odm/8.12.0?topic=designer-adding-rule-existing-eclipse . This causes extra work for clients and is com...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Is a defect

Allow different layouts in workspace to display full artifact name.

When displaying a workspace with a number of artifacts (process models, workspaces, decisions, etc.) that contain long names, those names are cut off no matter how much you zoom in or out. The only way to see the full name is to hover over the art...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Account level configuration of documentation font size

I am an admin for the Global Sales Incentives BlueWorks live account. We are long term users with a large, high volume usage account which is used daily by approximately 700 team members who use our account to learn and keep current on the Global ...
about 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Allow "Instance owners" team for a BPD to be changed like the other "Expose to" teams for a BPD, for example via the Admin console.

Currently, the "Instance owners" team that can be defined on a BPD can only be changed through a snapshot deployment. Other teams that the BPD is exposed to, like process starters, can be changed via the Admin Console. Please add the "Instance own...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BAI support on EKS

Allianz UK is using BAW /Case Manager with Case Analyzer and Cognos traditional on WAS. Allianz is migrating all existing FileNet / BAW implementations to AWS with native EKS Allianz asked for a roadmap using IBM BAI in this environment to replace...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

Change Decision Center DB to Version Control System

It has been painful to synchronize the rule artifacts between the branches in the Decision Center and developer workspaces. If the developer is NOT following best practices while renaming, copying the rule artifacts, and making the changes to the ...
about 5 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Improve Searchability in ADS

Here are two scenarios where searchability can be improved: The intent is to identify the list of associated rules and across Decision Services for a provided list of data fields. Also we have a need to highlight the audit trail of the rule approv...
over 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Planned for future release

Export function to download list of environment variables for snapshots.

When new snapshot is installed, new values of environment variables are updated.By synchronizing snapshots on Process Admin Console, current values can be synced to new snapshot from current snapshot. Customers may want to check whether synced val...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration