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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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Expand Undo Feature

Expand Undo feature to Activity Details panel and Decision Table editor.
about 9 years ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

Spring Boot 4.1 Support in IBM BAMOE

Our organization is aligning with the enterprise technology modernization roadmap, which mandates adoption of the latest supported Spring ecosystem versions for security, supportability, and long-term maintenance. Currently, IBM BAMOE 9.5 supports...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x Planned for future release

Positioning of boundary events and flow paths on collapsed/expanded sub-processes

When adding a boundary event to a sub-process, when you expand the sub-process the flow paths from the boundary events do not originate at the actual boundary events and instead sometimes appear center bottom of the expanded sub-process. This make...
12 months ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

Limiting User search from Platform IdentityManager

During the current go-live at ONGC, this is a major challenge. The Platform Identity Manager search does an entire search from LDAP repository without any pagination support or any limiting criteria. The limits should be configurable - whole idea ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Planned for future release

ODM Cloud direct zip file for Rule Designer

By making the latest ifix with jdk, plugins and eclipse in a zip file available for download on the IBM ODM cloud portal, we can simplify the process for customers and ensure that everyone - clients and support teams alike - are on the same page. ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Planned for future release

The new AI Button Location

The new AI button location is in the way of the process model. It often sits on top of text and the model needs to be moved in order to see what is behind it. This button would be better if located with the help section of the screen or in the whi...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

Governance: Only one single notification is send for trigger via Governance app, incase of no action by users. There is no option to send reminder notification or escalation.

Multiple reminders and escalation to be triggered incase of no action being taken for open process app tasks.
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

Make UIDs searchable

Currently it is not possible to search for the unique ID (UID) of a process blueprint or any other artifact. As we are using the UID to identify and refer to our processes it would be very helpful if we could use it as well in the search function.
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

SAP Start Session command to support SSO Login

Some of our customers have SSO Login configured in their SAP Application. Basically, the goal here is the command SAP Start Session command supports the SSO Login to SAP, so all the other SAP commands can still use that Session (i.e. Attach SAP Se...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Planned for future release