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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).


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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:

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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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  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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Automation Scripts using https instead of ping

We are suffering from not having ICMP ping enabled in the customer environment. We suggest to ensure all scripts provided by IBM use consistent method when checking connectivity. We would prefer using https
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Archive Project

We are looking for a way to archive a rules project that is no longer in use so that we still have access to the change history, but so that it is no longer update-able, or executable, and we are no longer including that project in our artifact co...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Not under consideration

Enhance merging features

Ability to graphically compare the changes to a rule flow. Ability to compare files in page rather than a separate modal window. Ability to view comparison for all files in a single page. Currently, whenever there are conflicts in a file, the only...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Integration the Decision Center with Version Control systems (TFS, Git, etc.)

Currently, the manual packaging and publication of XOM and Utility files from developer’s workstations via Rule Designer not only hinder efficiency but also pose significant security, governance, and code integrity concerns. Integrating the Decisi...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Multiple selected cell formatting in Rule Designer Decision Table

Currently, in Rule Designer, Decision Table(Legacy Editor) formatting options are limited to applying styles to whole table, a column or sing cell. it can be inefficient when we need to adjust the format of multiple cells at once. it would be bene...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Not under consideration

Option to filter out or hide items in the merge panel result that are of the same contents and only have version number differences.

Merging activity across releases in Decision Center with Governance Framework results in many differences being shown on unchanged items – due to version number differences. We would like to have option to filter out or hide items in the merge pan...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Not under consideration

To have Revision history and the snapshot history in the Web PD

In the Web PD, it is not possible to see the Revision History and the list of snapshots that are already snapped in a particular process app/toolkit. For the artifacts that can only be developed and viewed in Web PD, like CSHS, Service Flow, Proce...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Add Release Locks to ODM Decision Center REST API

Currently to "release locks" in the ODM business console a user must have Administrator privileges. If they are an Admin, then they can do anything. This is a violation of separation of duties. If the Release Lock action were available via the RES...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Not under consideration

ICC4SAP Load Balancing using https on Azure (and other clouds)

Qualify and test Azure (and other clouds: IBM, AWS) load balancing using https and offer ICC4SAP product support
6 months ago in Content Collector for SAP 2 Not under consideration

Native scripting for the OnDemand Client

Please add native scripting for the CMOD OnDemand client. Other clients (Such as DocumentDirect for ViewDirect) have had this functionality for decades. The OLE and DDE APIs in the 10.5 version of the client are antiquated and difficult to program...
9 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration