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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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ODM Cloud direct zip file for Rule Designer

By making the latest ifix with jdk, plugins and eclipse in a zip file available for download on the IBM ODM cloud portal, we can simplify the process for customers and ensure that everyone - clients and support teams alike - are on the same page. ...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Replicate EventListener Lifecycle in BAMOE9.2

Hello, after talking with support they told us that the Task & Processes Lifecycle events are not the same in BAMOE8 and BAMOE9. This is the resume they sent to us: Summary of gap: Feature BAMOE 8.x (jBPM) BAMOE 9.x (Kogito) =================...
22 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Future consideration

Migration path of runtime data between different database types.

The customer uses Oracle for the database of BAW and considers to change the database used by BAW from Oracle to MS SQL Server from system management perspective. When changing the database to MS SQL Server, the customer needs to migrate current r...
24 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Feature enhancement request for Content Manager API to support multi-threading.

We have been consistently experiencing issue with ICN which is related to how the application is utilized. It looks like users are opening multiple browser sessions when using ICN which in turn are creating web container threads deadlocks. These a...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager (CM8) 1 Future consideration

Allow linking between process flows using send/receive link event.

Blueworks Live should allow linking between blueprints using the send/receive link events much like message linking works but not defined as a message. The biggest problem is there’s no way to link multiple sequential flows via a link event to ano...
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

The BPMDeleteDurableMessages command should allow users to specify messages that have been consumed, not just a date range as it exists currently

As it stands the BPMDeleteDurableMessages command only allows you to specify a date cut-off for deleting durable messages. It should also give you the option to specify that you only wish to delete consumed messages. Right now there is no mechanis...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Tag value should be more flexible to allow REST Response JSON example to handle multiple values for a property

Currently, the IlrTag value is set to a String.Because of this, when setting multiple values to a property, then retrieving this value with REST API: /v1/projects/{projectId}/rules the result is a single string with the multiple values as one comm...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Future consideration

Update BAMOE 8.x.x to use EAP 8.x.x

The goal is to update IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions (BAMOE) version 8.x.x to be compatible with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) version 8.x.x. Known issues in timer management: Issues have been identified in timer manag...
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Future consideration

Produce a web based version to work with New Outlook.

MS New Outlook no longer works with the old com add-ins in outlook. They need to be web based and ideal available through the MS catalogue.
about 2 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Request for a separate feature to map organizational roles and hierarchy flows.

Currently, IBM Blueworks Live focuses on process mapping and does not directly support hierarchical organizational charts. This limitation poses a challenge for administrators who need to visualize and manage organizational roles and hierarchy flo...
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration