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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

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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.
10 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Support for Content Manager (CM8) for EXADATA (Oracle)

Dear Sir or Madam The German Federal Pension Insurance (DRV Bund) is the largest pension insurance institution in the Federal Republic of Germany. It fulfills its tasks as part of the critical infrastructure. The DRV Bund has been using the IBM Co...
20 days ago in Content Manager (CM8) 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...
6 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...
6 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

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 ...
11 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...
11 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

User Account Activity API

Hi Team, In BWL from Community tab, under "Account Activity Stream" we need "User wise activity" export using an API on monthly basis. We have option in BWL UI as manual export but its very time consuming when we try to export for more users. If w...
23 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Update Container Reference Architecture for CP4BA.

Our existing reference architecture for our container platform based CP4BA is 2 years old. Reference architecture is viewed as "table steaks" in terms of selling software. It is requested in EVERY RFP/RFI. It is often requested/required by our cli...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

Implementation of a systemic lock and observability in rule approval.

Implementation of a systemic lock with dual control for rule approval, ensuring that the creation, modification, or deletion of parameterized rules in the ODM engine is reviewed. Ensuring that rules were reviewed and tested before implementing pro...
27 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Support for Tracability, OpenTelemetry and Instrumentation to be able to use tools like Jaeger,Kiali

There is need for tracing global transaction/request ID that starts with the platform UI and gets propagated to the various layers/components of CP4BA so that one can follow the transaction. Our clients are using OpenShift Service Mesh ( Istio ) a...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Not under consideration