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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

BC - Business rule documentation to include hyperlinks for URLs

Our business users frequently make references to external documentations to support the business case of the rule. They use the documentation field on the business rule to record these external references as URL. When exploring these business rule...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Enhance documentation for ARSUUPD Compile

Customer wishes to compile the arsuupdt user exit for CMOD V10.5 on z/OS; both their custom C implementation and the supplied sample exit return code 6. They need to know what the correct JCL for compiling the arsuupdt exit should look like? Unfor...
2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

Improve clarity and root-cause visibility in RuleApp deployment error messages

Product: IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) Version: 9.0.0.1 (Observed post iFix IF024) Background / Problem Statement: Following the resolution of defect DT463767 (delivered via iFix IF024), improvements were expected in deployment validation...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Is a defect

Ability to download a printable copy of the snapshot comparison

Our teams of business users actively maintain and deploy business rules using the Business Console. Snapshot is a key feature they use to draw comparisons between two deployments (snapshots automatically created at each deployment). They frequentl...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Future consideration

All users can see who created a blueprint and who last modified it, over 90 days

Give all users the ability to view who created a blueprint and who last modified it, even it has past the current 90-day period. It is crucial to be able to see who created an existing blueprint so if another user has a process that overlaps or du...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Search through code in application

The product would be greatly enhanced by having a simple search-option, to find where specific code is used. Would also be great if it supported RegEx. It would be plenty enough if it was usable to find code in Javascript/InputOutput bindings, and...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 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...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Future consideration

Implement a Custom NFS / PVC Mount (/ecmconfig) - for cpe-deploy and navigator deploy configuration files

As we move to CP4BA, our Team needs to deploy ICN plugin and Code Module Configuration files in CP4BA Navigator and CPE Deploy pods. The purpose of this request is to attain support for WestPac to create a Custom PVC / NFS share (/ecmconfig) for s...
7 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Prevent Users from Modifying CMIS Queries in ECM Document List in IBM BAW

The ECM Document List component in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) dynamically generates CMIS queries to retrieve authorized case documents from IBM Content Platform Engine (CPE). However, penetration testing has revealed that users can int...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Create button for group sync

As today we have a button on the UI for users sync but need to access swagger and run the group sync through api. It would be easier and intuitive to have this api displayed as buttons on the UI.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Future consideration