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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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ActionHub Monitor for Events

Nowadays, ActionHub can monitor project-level objects like Activities, Processes, and so on. It may be required by the customer to monitor event-level data, i.e. the volume of data uploaded reaching a certain threshold. The idea is to add such a f...
3 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

Have a Global setting for automatic resizing of content to fit column in Decision table on Decision Center

As a result of the new decision table editor, we want to have all our decision tables automatically fit to screen as it was in the Legacy decision table editor. This specific request is for the Decision Center. After sharing some data through a Su...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Datacap Navigator Verify - Request the ability to execute an Alternate Task Profile and submit the batch in a single step

In clients system, an additional task profile was developed that allows users to reject a batch from Datacap Navigator during the Verify step. To complete this process, the user must first click the Reject Batch button and then click Submit to fin...
3 months ago in Datacap Future consideration

Swimlane selectable color option

With the option to select a color for each individual swimlane everyone can easily see who does what at first sight. This would improve the readability of the BPNM diagram. A good start would be to have a few predefined colors in the canvas and th...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Future consideration

Support SSH keys for signed Git commits in BAMOE Canvas

BAMOE Canvas currently allows users to work with GitHub repositories, but it does not provide a way to configure an SSH key for signing commits. This creates a limitation for organizations that enforce repository rules requiring all commits to be ...
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Future consideration

Support Jakarta XML Binding instead of Javax XML binding in newer ODM release

On ODM 9.5, jdk is moving to JDK 21, and runs in Jakarta EE container, but Liberty/ODM is still running Javax XML binding instead of Jakarta XML Binding. We want use the new xml binding 4.0 instead of old one.
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Add Ability to Open Active Subprocess in SVG API

BAMOE 8.0.5 and older versions - When a root process is instantiated that contains re-usable sub-process, and when the re-usable subprocess is active, the + icon on subprocess becomes clickable. When clicked, it launches another rest endpoint with...
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Future consideration

Filter and view only specific areas in the Process View

Filtering and Viewing Specific Areas in the Process View Based on process analysis using actual customer data, various cases and activities exist, making it difficult to interpret the process based on these factors. Therefore, the client wants to ...
4 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

Case insensitive query on GraphQL

We need a way to make the comparison lowercase or uppercase when querying with graphql (additional optional parameters) For example, customer would like conditions to process Name to be the same results when doing with either {"like": "Hi*"} {"lik...
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Future consideration

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
4 months ago in Datacap Future consideration