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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 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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Enhance "View Title" display update during "View Full Report" at page level

We store the mainframe batch jobs log information in CMOD at the DD_NAME level, with the DD_NAME field set as the "View Title". However, when we select "View Full Report" for a job in CMOD thick client 10.5.8, the "View Title" does not change as w...
6 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

Configurable option for Datacap Application Deployment Tool (DCDexployment.exe) to stop the Taskmaster during deployment

As per below documentation, End-to-end remote deployment on Datacap Taskmaster Server, Rulerunner, and Datacap Web Services web servers includes starting and stopping the servers. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/datacap/9.1.9?topic=administering-datac...
6 days ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

Ability to export information about all spaces and processes from front end

The user is looking for an alternative to API to get a report on spaces/ processes. Many users have been asking for a similar feature from front end time to time. ------- This user wants to report on Information such as - Process name - Last modif...
7 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Enable Support for Hashicorp on CP4BA to Store Secrets

ODM on CP4BA diverges from the RBC standards with respect to storing “secrets” such as credentials. The OpenShift preference is to manage this with a component called Hashicorp Vault. ODM on Kubernetes alrady supports this but CP4BA does not. We r...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Identify Rule App project updates in Decision Center for specific date range

We need to determine if any updates made to specific Rule App project in Decision Center between defined date range (25-Nov-24 to 11-Dec-24). Although the project was eventually updated at a later date, we are specifically looking if any changes w...
7 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Add parameter to control the access rights of the folder used for the cache when generating a ruleset archive

When you set the "Path of the location of the cache used to store build files" to a custom folder in the BC -> Administration -> Settings, and you set the "Type of storage to use as a temporary buffer when generating a ruleset archive" to "F...
8 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Support Dynatrace in CP4BA 24.x

Dynatrace is the standard monitoring tool used across all teams at RBC. We have been leveraging it in previous version of CP4BA as well. There are many upstream calls made before our RuleApps are called in ODM and Dynatrace allows us to get a whol...
11 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Needs more information

IBM FileNet deployment in GCP cloud

Customer needs to use Google Cloud Platform as per business requirements. The request here is to add fsgroup configuration.
11 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Need access to property or an API which can return XU pool size/Thread pool being used on given runtime container at any given time.

Why is it Useful ?? By monitoring thread pool size and resource usage, you can identify the upcoming issues and optimize performance. This helps in ensuring that the system is neither underutilized nor overwhelmed. It allows for better management ...
12 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Accessing RuleApp property values from within java XOM

When defining a RuleApp deployment for a Decision Service in either Decision Center or Rule Designer, we can define 'RuleApp properties' key-value pairs. However, there does not appear to be a way to use the documented public API to access the pro...
12 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review