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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

All ideas

Restrict Developer(Users) in tw_authors from seeing all users when trying to re-assign the task in inspector

The Developer can now see "all" users in the dropdown when trying to re-assign the task in inspector. On on-prem he only sees the users that is part of the team. Initially user cannot see members but when we change the settingsset that to false fo...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide a curl batch deployment command for decision center deployment

In order to deploy in other places than directly to the res, (example maven artefactory/nexus repository) , it would be nice to have the ability to create a curl deployment command deployment tool in Decision Center. The content of the command wou...
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 6 Not under consideration

Datacap Navigator Verify - Request the ability to execute an Alternate Task Profile and submit the batch in a single step

In clients system, an additional task profile was developed that allows users to reject a batch from Datacap Navigator during the Verify step. To complete this process, the user must first click the Reject Batch button and then click Submit to fin...
3 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Business user expecting to add inline comments or block comments in rule content. Currently we have capability to add comments in Documentation section however business user cannot add comments specific to any lines and for any block.

This will help business users better understand the rule functionality and enable them to maintain a clear change log directly within the rules.
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Datacap Navigator 9.19 shortcut in Job Monitor to contain a total count of bathes for the task.

Please see example in screen print. For example: I have two shortcuts. One for "navigator scan" shortcut and one for Verify shortcut. Customer would like a total count in parentheses on "Navigator Scan" total and the same for Verify short customer
3 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 4 Under review

We wish ODM would make Decision Governance Framework as a default so that application teams can defaulted to use it rather than giving them an option.

Security compliance in our organization and they follow Decision Governance Framework can dra
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Swimlane selectable color option

With the option to select a color for each individual swimlane everyone can easily see who does what at first sight. This would improve the readability of the BPNM diagram. A good start would be to have a few predefined colors in the canvas and th...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

Nested Service flow caching

It would be nice if "Service flow" caching would work even on child/nested service flows. Now caching only works on the top-level Service Flow. If you enable caching on a child flow, the option will be ignored, and the service will be executed eve...
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Recorder with the PROTHEUS - TOTVS system

The TOTVS Protheus system is widely used by companies, but the IBM Automation Recorder does not work for it, the components are not found. This makes it unfeasible to automate it with the IBM Automation tool. I request the implementation in the IB...
about 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 5 Future consideration

BAI should index decisions list data a JSON arrays in the ElasticSearch Index

List of objects in the BOM of a decision event is flattered in the JSON document. For instance, a Client object with a list of Product is represented as the JSON object: “data.ruleapp.ruleset.in.client.products.1.id”: “id1”, “data.ruleapp.ruleset....
about 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration