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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

RACI Functionality in Blueworks Live

Blueworks Live is being used for process mapping at my company, but we are starting to use it for our RACI matrixes. I am requesting functionality enhancements to Blueworks Live that will make creating RACI matrixes easier. I am currently using th...
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Deploying same snapshot without any changes causing issue jni already loaded in another classloader

When we deploy a snapshot and create an instance id, it is able to make a rest call to external service. When we deploy another new snapshot without any changes and creating instance we are seeing jni already loaded in another classloader. Error o...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Allow files greater than 2GB to be loaded

We are receiving single files greater than 2GB (2.2 GB) which are ASCII/ISO text files used for merchant reconciliation and encounter error ARS1412E when trying to load them. Therefore we must be able to load text files bigger than 2GB. Other MIME...
over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Include DBA out-of-the-box connectors with IBM RPA

It would be nice to have BAW, ODM, Filenet, CMOD connectors to be pullable as commands instead of always built from scratch.
over 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Execution via runtime with total admin privileges (runtime)

Essa ideia surgiu a cerca de 1 ano, mediante a necessidade de que nos deparamos com nossos clientes em que um programa, usando por um robô, é executado em seu processo somente com os privilégios total ativado(Modo Administrador). Em testes com a e...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhancement for ARSXML - Option to update ALL tables when switching a field between Index and Filter on the AG

The GUI allows you to decide whether or not to update all of the existing tables or only new ones going forward when flipping a field between Filter and Index however ARSXML does not have the capability. Allowing ARSXML this feature would mean we ...
3 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

Ability to filter/find rules artifacts by their "LOCKED" status

Admins need a better way to find and unlock rules left locked by departing or vacationing employees. The current Query capability is close, but having the ability to actually filter by the locked status of a rule artifact would reduce the effort a...
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

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...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Functionality already exists

Having the possibility to export Scripts from Control Center with their schedule to import into a different environment.

If customer has multiple environment he can move Scripts with their schedule to a different environment without uploading and scheduling one by one.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

ODM on Nutanix Hypervisor

Several ISA customers have deployed or planning to deploy traditional ODM on the Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor(AHV) due to cost advantages over VMware. While these deployments function as expected, customers are encountering support challenges when...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Functionality already exists