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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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Rule match (decision) explainability

Provide the ability to output details from a rule match of the rule definitions, conditions and the corresponding values associated with the rule match outcome - in order to help explain why a particular business rule matched. This rule match outp...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0

Datacap Navigator under verfiy screen interface does not display the full file path of the document selected for upload. Which makes it difficult to confirm the source location of the document.

Enhance the Verify UI to include the complete file path of the browsed document. This will allow users to verify the origin of the file before submitting the batch, ensuring accuracy and reducing errors caused by selecting files from incorrect dir...
5 months ago in Datacap 2 Not under consideration

Archival Support for BPMN Process Instances in CP4BA/BAW

Currently, CP4BA/BAW provides an archive system for BPEL (BPC) process instances, snapshots, branches, and tracks, but no equivalent feature exists for BPMN process instances.Providing a consistent archival mechanism would allow users to move comp...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Support for new German Standard for electronic invoices

There is a Standard for Electronically sent Invoices in Germany called ZUGFeRD. The Standard uses PDF documents, into which a XML file with the invoice details is embedded. The usecase is that customers need to be able to access this XML file, (a)...
7 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Needs more information

Improve the process for splitting documents

When I split a document, I would like for it to automatically update to “Main page” so I do not have to manually do it and click “submit” and exit any pop up errors for changes. Currently, we are stuck with the present manual process of changing t...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Allow the /v1/DBAdmin/{id}/wipe tool to also handles Test Suite attribute used to store the excel file

Currently, we can wipe information from element versions to remove Personally Identifiable Information from history records but this tool is limited to the following: brm.Definition.body brm.ProjectElement.documentation versionComment However, the...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Automated email to Business Owners & Space Mangers from Blueworks Live for Annual review of process maps

For financial institutions and banks, process maps play a critical role in managing day-to-day business operations. To ensure these processes remain accurate and relevant, they must be reviewed and updated annually. To support this, we use a metad...
7 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Functionality already exists

IBM CMOD REST API support varies application servers

I have an idea for the IBM CMOD REST API to support and be compatible with various application servers. Currently, the CMOD REST API only supports WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Liberty. However, many customers maintain a vendor list f...
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Availability of Pluggable Variable Persistence (PVP) in BAMOE 9.3 or higher

From the documentation page of BAMOE 9.3.0 we can see that Pluggable variable persistence is currently not supported [1] Are you planning to support it in future release? We are using it in our applications built on top of BAMOE 8.x When are you p...
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

Enabling Stage names translation in Case Client of IBM BAW

Localizing the stages name into a different locale (for eg, Arabic) is currently not possible in IBM BAW. Even tying to localize the stage names using custom string approach ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/24.x?topic=applications-translating-cus...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Is a defect