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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 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...
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

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BAW product DBUpgrade Scripts to support SSL enabled datasource

We are unable to establish connection to backend DB via SSL enabled datasource during DB upgrade script execution as a part of BAW version upgrade . It's a known limitation that upgrade tools connect to the database outside the AppServer context a...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support for PFX Certificates in the HTTP Request Command

Currently, the HTTP Request command in IBM RPA does not support sending certificates, which prevents secure communication via mTLS. To address this limitation, we propose adding a feature that allows attaching PFX certificates directly in the HTTP...
6 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability of still using maintenance.admin after enabling SAML

Once you enable SAML, it's not possible to access Process Mining instance with maintenance.admin. This would be a good idea in case you have SAML configuration issues, because you'd still be able to access the product, without running through the ...
6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future 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...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Not under consideration

Include all ODM Rule Designer plugins in all install methods

As it is, optional plugins must be installed from separate Rule Designer update sites as documented at the bottom of https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/odm/8.12.0?topic=designer-adding-rule-existing-eclipse . This causes extra work for clients and is com...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Is a defect

Decision Table Precondition – Unused Variable Warning Flag Enhancement

If you have unused variables in an action rule it causes a warning and underlines the variable informing the developer of the issue. With a Decision Table if you have unused variables that are created in the preconditions tab they do not cause war...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Ability to Add Custom Templates

As Blueworks is a tool that is used across our company, different departments projects are mapped from a specific view point or with a specific focus on how the Customer interacts with the process, or how a System functions etc. This leads to diff...
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

No Code environment to define workflows

Summary Web Process Designer environment is too complex to create a process for a persona with limited technical skills. There is a need for a much simpler No Code tool to configure workflows from pre-defined project-specific components that can b...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

FileNet should support customer managed encryption key for AWS S3 bucket upload and download of content.

FileNet should have mechanism to keep the encryption keys and also able to manage multiple keys in case multiple storage areas. This feature helps to maintain corporate security mandates. It's my understanding that there are several customers requ...
about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Functionality already exists

Template filters ability to add to current filters, not just replace

When applying multiple filters to one model if you want to apply a template filter in addition to current filters you can't. You can only replace current filters with template, and then you have to add all other filters you want to apply. This is ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Planned for future release