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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...

All ideas

Enhance Daeja ViewONE Virtual Viewer Printing Performance for Large TIFF Documents

Customers using IBM Content Navigator with Daeja ViewONE Virtual Viewer have requested improvements to the printing experience for large TIFF documents. Currently, when printing large TIFF documents (for example, documents larger than approximatel...
3 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted

Provide a supported configuration option to customize the NGINX keepalive_timeout for ODM Decision Server Runtime ZenExtension in IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation.

Environment IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) 24.0.1 Operational Decision Manager (ODM) deployed on Red Hat OpenShift Decision Server Runtime (DSR) exposed through the CP4BA Zen Front Door (NGINX) ZenExtension resource automatically ge...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Add config option to decision center to reduce information disclosure in Deployments tab

Right now the Deployments tab is returning more information than needed. The user name and the URL of the target deployment console is returned in the GET request. Impact: This information is not needed in the UI, and it might be of aid in attacks...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Is a defect

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...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Read & write parameters in RPA Control Center #SPGI #ClientEngineering #RPA

There are some situations, especially in orchestration processes, where we need to pass information between one process and the next one. For example: counters, boolean or text values. It would be very useful to have, not only read access, but as ...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Check status that are "Running" or "Cancelling"

If there are any problems with the communication between the client and the Server, you may have problems when a bot is running or canceling an instance of a process. The bot will get stuck with these statuses and will not be changed. A good idea ...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Is a defect

Provide notification before LTPA token expires

Our Process Servers have been upgraded to BAW 20002. At this release, when the LTPA token expires, users are logged out without notice. In some cases end users have lost information entered into data fields.
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Control over process map linkage - limit linkable map locations as an admin function

Challenge: all maps in the Blueworks estate appear on the 'list' of maps to link to. This includes content that may be stored in sandpits, training spaces etc. Requirement: Provide an admin function to allow the admins to restrict the content whic...
6 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Support external MonetDB

Support of the use of external MonetDB
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2 Functionality already exists

Make Simple Search Filters configurable.

This would improve the usability of the Simple Search for Org.
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Needs more information