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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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BAW to support MS SQL Always On Availability feature

BAW to support the MS SQL Always On Availability. this is critical functionality with benefits for High Availability and in replicating environments to the DR site.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Allow different options for downloading scripts

When selecting the “download scripts” button in the Tenant, an interface should open allowing you to choose parameters to filter the scripts. Ex: -Downloading all scripts (as it is today); -Download only scripts in production; -Download only the l...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Getting process instances from production to a test environment

We would like to copy process instance and data from one environment to another. * Extract process instances for a given process from source environment (PS1)* Get that process instances into a target environment (PS2), with the same version of th...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Kerberos support for XA Recovery transactions on BPM/WAS

Requesting Kerberos authentication support for transactions during XA recovery. Product version: IBM BPM 8.5.6.0/WAS 8.5.5.12 Kerberos functionality provided by IBM on WAS/BPM is not fully working and needs enhancement.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Is there a way for administrators to disable or restrict the PDF export (Print PDF) option for Viewer users?

Currently, there is no option to disable or restrict the PDF export option for Viewer users in IBM Blueworks Live. This limitation poses a challenge for administrators who need more control over document sharing and export permissions. Are there a...
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under 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...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 6 Not under consideration

ODWek: Duplicate ODServer objects

ODServer initialization is an expensive operation. ODFolder initialization from that ODServer is also expensive. However, connection pooling is a recommended best practice when utilizing ODWek. What if we could initialize a single/few ODServer obj...
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 4 Not under consideration

ODM Container - Addition of Kerberos configuration to IBM Helm chart for Oracle Database connectivity

Hi, Our Oracle Database is fully kerberized and we need Kerberos authentication to be added to ODM version 8.11.1.0 and Helm - 22.2.0 For configuring kerberos, we need to pass the following file which are available in our organization: krb_config:...
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Simplify searching an individual Application Group

Searching today follows one of three paths: Based on ODCriteria values Based on SQL Based on an ODNamedQuery The only provision in ODWek to allow restricting searches to a given Application Group is via ODFolder.setApplGroupForSearchWithSQL(). My ...
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Not under consideration

Webservice request using .pfx certificate

We need IBM RPA to support performing a web service request passing a pfx certificate.Both commands need to have https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rpa/21.0?topic=web-http-request and https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rpa/21.0?topic=web-soap-request.
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration