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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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Sequential Engine - Execute All The Rules Irrespective of Tuple Matching

Today, the CRE and DE sequential engines skip a rule task if any tuple variable(s) are missing during rule execution. This is not an expected behavior. There may be 100 rules in a ruletask and a tuple variable may be used in only one rule so why w...
almost 4 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Not under consideration

Support for Adobe Flex applications

Using computer vision is really faulty to work with applications built on Adobe Flex. Understanding the Flash/Flex naming and technologies: https://stackoverflow.com/a/69040/1830639
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Additional Credential Data

Credential management is more than user and password. This idea is to enhance credential management with additional fields/features Possibility to disregard username. For tokens, etc where only the password applies Add Expiration Date Field Add St...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

PUBLIC api to get Environment Data

IBM Clients and Partners need access to Envinronment Data to upload in a PowerBI or to improve the robot's monitoring For this, we need acess to Envinroment through API.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

maven replacement for res-write-file

The goal is to replace all ant build task to maven. When unzip the ruleapp, the folder is not recognized by J2SE session as a valid ruleset path.
almost 4 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

BPM表單歷史記錄提供查詢功能

流程不管是否正常結束,都應可供查詢
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Unattended Bot Scheduler is unreliable​, and should work without failures showing clear logging to increase confidence

The scheduler is not reliable. It uses an asynchronous process. As a result, we need to wait until the "trigger event" to know if it worked or not. Because it is asynchronous, we have no confirmation of any error when scheduling an unattended bot....
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Fixed Content Device Staging using Database Storage Location

With the move to containerization we are finding that support of and implementation of NFS or other mounted file systems like Network Attached Storage (NAS) or Storage Attached Network (SAN) are no longer acceptable. We have requirements however f...
almost 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Not under consideration

API: Determining what changes have been done to a rule from previous version.

Finding a way to determine what changes have been done to a rule from last version. We can see this manually in Timeline -> Compare tool in BC, but, I am looking for a programmatical way to find changes in rules from last version/deployment. We...
almost 4 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Not under consideration

Add ODM to Azure Active Directory application gallery

For Azure SSO, our organization requires ODM to be in the Azure Active Directory application gallery as it adds user friendliness for integration and standardizes support.
almost 4 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration