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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 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...
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

All ideas

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Add options to the cleanup tool to permanently delete all versions of specific artifacts

Currently, the cleanup tool (/v1/DBAdmin/cleanup REST API) helps reduce the database size when you have multiple versions of specific artifacts (such as DT or Test Suite). However the latest version and the original version remains in the database...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

Enhancement for ARSXML - Option to update ALL tables when switching a field between Index and Filter on the AG

The GUI allows you to decide whether or not to update all of the existing tables or only new ones going forward when flipping a field between Filter and Index however ARSXML does not have the capability. Allowing ARSXML this feature would mean we ...
26 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

Support multiple MQ input queues for BAW runtime in CP4BA

Currently CP4BA BAW only supports one single input queue for all automations. We would like to have support for multiple queues. This makes it possible for each business line and business application to have responsible for its own queues, making ...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Under review

Enhancement Request - Enable Bulk Retrieval with CMOD REST API

CMOD REST API has capability to retrieve one document (docID) at a time, can it be enhanced to enable multiple doc retrievals like with arsdoc get?
2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

Allow IBM ODM Rule Designer to configure and use multiple OIDC scopes (per provider) for Entra ID/Azure AD authentication

When using IBM ODM Rule Designer with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) via OIDC, Rule Designer currently allows only a single scope to be configured through the JVM parameter: -Dcom.ibm.rules.studio.oidc.synchro.scopes=xxx/.default This works only if...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

Have option to secure TCP communication between XU and RES console.

User doing port scan and find this port is not secure. Ideally there should be option to secure this port as well.
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

In Cloud pak for business automation, We need to update the certs in the odm_configuration.customization.trusted_certificate_list with a managed restart of the ODM Pods

At the moment, when we change the certificate we have all pods restarting at the same time. This is causing a huge business impact and requires downtime which is not planned. This would benefit anyone looking to change certificates due to underlyi...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Option to indicate inline or not inline variable output for decision service

New feature/option to allow a developer to indicate whether variable output for a decision service should be inline or not inline. The option would allow the output to include the original wrapper object.
about 2 months ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Under review

Cross-Project Search Capability

We would like to see a cross-project search capability in ADS. This capability would allow us to search across all projects to determine where an element is used/set. Right now, the search capability is limited to searching within a project.
about 2 months ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Under review

Option to customize the user context menu in decision tables

Since version 9 or 9.5, the 'Hidden' and 'Table Properties' options have been available to rules managers. Considering our usage of the tool, we would like to be able to modify the context menu from the business console in order to remove them. In...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review