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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 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...

All ideas

Support for new German Standard for electronic invoices

There is a Standard for Electronically sent Invoices in Germany called ZUGFeRD. The Standard uses PDF documents, into which a XML file with the invoice details is embedded. The usecase is that customers need to be able to access this XML file, (a)...
12 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Needs more information

User Account Activity API

Hi Team, In BWL from Community tab, under "Account Activity Stream" we need "User wise activity" export using an API on monthly basis. We have option in BWL UI as manual export but its very time consuming when we try to export for more users. If w...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

In-product outage information and other important news in a modal once we log into the Control Center

Currently, users only get notified of shortages via email. This is easily missed due to the number of emails we all receive. Having a modal once you log into the tenant would be the best way to deal with this.
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Automated email to Business Owners & Space Mangers from Blueworks Live for Annual review of process maps

For financial institutions and banks, process maps play a critical role in managing day-to-day business operations. To ensure these processes remain accurate and relevant, they must be reviewed and updated annually. To support this, we use a metad...
12 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Functionality already exists

mTLS support for ODM on Kubernetes required for Apigee integration

mTLS (mutual TLS) protocol is required for ODM on K8S for Apigee integration. Mathias Mouly has stated that it's possible to mTLS support for ODM on Kubernetes See Slack thread: https://ibm-cloud.slack.com/archives/C7L0AD0PJ/p1737652228664479?thre...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

Enforce Server-Side Validation and Output Encoding for Upload Metadata to Prevent XSS

Issue: The current implementation of the document upload functionality processes metadata parameters provided by the client without enforcing strict server-side validation. Fields such as PT_UPLOADED_DOC_TYPE, PT_BPM_TASK_ID, PT_ISSUANCE_DATE, and...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

FixPack Installation Modularity

Certain server components (e.g., RuleRunner) cannot be removed once the fixpack is installed, as the fixpack does not provide an uninstall wizard for individual components. ==> Impact: Reinstallation of all required components.
4 months ago in Datacap 1 Not under consideration

Modify Deployment Configuration on Closed Release

Allow deployment configuration files to be modified in a closed release so that we can deploy to other environments that may not have been selected in the original deployment configuration. As of today, we have to create a new release to do this,...
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

JBoss EAP 8 support for BAMOE 8.0.x

As part of security vulnerability customer is planning to upgrade JBoss EAP from 7.4.14 to 8.0.2.1. They are running BAMOE 8.0.2 and request adding support for JBoss EAP 8.x in a future release.
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Not under consideration

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.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration