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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:

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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Enable cloud/Container ODM users to directly access the full set of sample projects—identical to those available for on-prem local installations—within Rule Designer or via a dedicated, downloadable package.

This is useful because it allows cloud and container-based ODM customers to access essential training and reference materials without installing a full ODM server. Developers, technical teams, and new users would benefit by reducing setup complexi...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Functionality already exists

IBM Process Mining to enable custom calendar creation

We suggest IBM Process Mining enable users for using custom calendars for intervals calculation. For example, there are scenarios where there are certain filters and event identifiers that have different working hours. For example, in support case...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Functionality already exists

LDAP Sync on multiplatform CMOD: Enable wild card with user filter in ars.cfg.

Currently there is no wild card allowed under ARS_LDAP_USER_FILTER parameter in ars.cfg file. This feature is present in ARS_LDAP_GROUP_FILTER parameter. Because of this, the users and groups are able to independently sync to CMOD after arslsync i...
about 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) Functionality already exists

More dashboard elements allowed

Currently only 8 dashboard elements are allowed we should be able to have more like our competitors do
over 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining Functionality already exists

Built-in root cause analysis

Automatic detection of the causes of process problems (e.g., delays, errors, bottlenecks) and recommendation of corrective actions.
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Functionality already exists

In Cloud pak for business automation, We need to update the certs in the odm_configuration.customization.trusted_certificate_list with a managed restart of the ODM Pods

At the moment, when we change the certificate we have all pods restarting at the same time. This is causing a huge business impact and requires downtime which is not planned. This would benefit anyone looking to change certificates due to underlyi...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Functionality already exists

Ability to change default sorting of documents attached to a case

When users rely on document attachments for work on cases, they may need to sort them on other fields than the document name.
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Functionality already exists

Support for SharePoint Subscription Edition

As detailed reports for ICC for MSP (Content Collector for Microsoft SharePoint 4.0.1.16 - Detailed System Requirements) does not list SharePoint Subscription Edition, I opened a support case (TS020807717) where I was told that currently IBM does ...
8 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files Functionality already exists

Datacap ILMT PVU/VPC support

Datacap currently does not show up in ILMT reports. We have run the Database License Manager utility, selected PVU, executed it and it generated the swidtag files. However after re-running ILMT, Datacap is still not detected. The customer opened a...
8 months ago in Datacap Functionality already exists

BAMoE on RHOCP on GCP

Customer needs to deploy BAMoE on GCP in Q4 2024. For this to happen, customer needs BAMoE supported on RHOCP (or GKE) on GCP. IBM needs the approval from D&B ARB (Architectural Review Board) this month to approve the project. For this, we nee...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition Functionality already exists