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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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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Visual Studio Plugin for ODM Rule Development

ODM provides Eclipse Rule Designer Plugin. None for Vistual Studio. VS is the IDE of choice for CoPilot. Need ability to leverage LLM capabilities using ODM regardless of persona ( Developer vs Business user) and use any model of choice
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Formal AD LDS (aka ADAM) support for CP4BA

CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: In terms of supported LDAPs for CP4BA, documentation states that "Options include IBM Security® Directory Server, Microsoft Active Directory, a PingDirectory, and a custom directory" and it provides examples (here https://ww...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

Retrieval of group name associated to a batch

We would need a supported API, database query, RuleRunner action or .NET API method that allows a custom action running in RuleRunner to retrieve the Group Name(s) of the group(s) associated with the current batch at runtime
about 1 month ago in Datacap Under review

Introduce authoring‑time validation (or mandatory warning) in IBM Operational Decision Manager to prevent saving decision table preconditions that contain unresolved placeholders (e.g., <a number>), which currently pass validation but fail during deployment.

IBM ODM allows users to save decision table preconditions that include unresolved placeholders without errors or warnings. Although these preconditions appear valid at design time, they consistently cause build or deployment failures. This creates...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Add support in IBM Operational Decision Manager Decision Center to export decision tables directly as CSV or flat files, including support through the Decision Center API.

Today, Decision Center Business Console allows exporting decision tables as Excel files only. There is currently no standard capability to directly export decision tables as CSV or flat files, and no Decision Center API support for this type of ex...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

IBM CP4BA (CPfs) should define a path to move from Embedded Postgres to External Postgres

Clients that started with the Embedded Postgres database for CPfs features want to move to an External Postgres database for improvements on maintainability & servicability. According to current documentation, only new environments can be crea...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

Support direct upgrade from CP4BA 24.0.1 to CP4BA 26.0.0 on Openshift

We moved to BAW 24.0.1 traditional because it was the first version in which process instance migration from traditional to containers was possible. Since we wanted to move to containers quickly we did not wait for the 25.0.0 release. After we hav...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

Support offsetting processInstanceId on new cp4ba/baw/wfps installations.

We are migrating from TWAS BAW to CP4BA and duplicate ProcessInstanceID (PIID)'s will become an issue for us. We use this ID many places in systems external to BAW and in custom database tables. And it will be a huge and risky change to support th...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Under review

Support CM8 8.7.x with Oracle As A Service (OraaS)

CM8 requires the Library server to be installed on the database server. This is not possible when using Oracle As A Service because nothing can be installed next to the database service.
2 months ago in Content Manager (CM8) Under review

Officially add Azure SQL to the list of supported Database

Azure SQL Database is the Cloud equivalent of Microsoft SQL Server (it uses the same core SQL Server database engine but is offered as a fully managed cloud service PAAS)Customer who wants to migrate their Microsoft SQL Server to the Cloud are lik...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

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