Digital Business Automation Ideas


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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,

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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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Business Automation Insights for orchestrate

We are considering using orchestrate as a means to perform simple back-office tasks, we would need to be able to monitor from a service perspective the processes performed in orchestrate - number of proceses, types (per business function), number ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Provide an option to exclude unused rule flows during rule app archive generation. Currently system supports rule-level filtering through query parameters (e.g., status and tags), similar filtering capabilities are not extended to rule flows, leading to the inclusion of redundant artifacts in the archive.

In the current application, certain rule flows are maintained in Decision Center exclusively for testing purposes, and there is a need to exclude these non-production flows during deployment to the Decision Server. While the platform currently sup...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Keyboard accessibility issue: Tooltip not displayed for year values in Date field on Add Document page

Tooltip information associated with year values should be displayed and accessible during keyboard navigation.
3 months ago in Content Navigator Under review

XU persistence statistic in db or configmap

Currently XU persistence statistic resets with pod restart, there no directions to persist this somewhere
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Tooltip not displayed for year values in Date field on Add Document page

On the Add Document page, when navigating the date field using keyboard only, the year values do not display the additional tooltip information that is otherwise available through mouse interaction. As a result, keyboard users do not have access t...
3 months ago in Content Navigator Under review

Close functions editable elements accessible via mouse are not reachable using keyboard on Search and Viewer pages

When navigating the Search or Viewer page using keyboard only, certain editable and interactive UI elements that are accessible with a mouse cannot be reached, focused, or operated using keyboard navigation (Tab, Shift + Tab, Arrow keys, Enter, Sp...
3 months ago in Content Navigator Under review

Introduce authoring‑time validation (or mandatory warning) in IBM Operational Decision Manager to prevent saving decision table preconditions that contain unresolved placeholders (e.g., <a number>), which currently pass validation but fail during deployment.

IBM ODM allows users to save decision table preconditions that include unresolved placeholders without errors or warnings. Although these preconditions appear valid at design time, they consistently cause build or deployment failures. This creates...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Support CM8 8.7.x with Oracle As A Service (OraaS)

CM8 requires the Library server to be installed on the database server. This is not possible when using Oracle As A Service because nothing can be installed next to the database service.
4 months ago in Content Manager (CM8) Under review

connecting to SQL server database using Service Accounts

connecting to SQL server database using Service Accounts which will connect to BAW related databases (BPMDB, CMNDB) and other application based DB that uses JDBC connection. We have a change up comming from SQL DB team where they will stop allowin...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Under review

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