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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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Enhance new governance functionality

The new governance functionality is a great new feature that we were missing since we introduced BWL in our company. Nevertheless there are still some limitations that are holding us back from activating it. Current limitations: When activating th...
6 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Write out the month (e.g. Jan, Feb, Mar...) when displaying the date

Display all dates as 13-May-2024 (instead of 13.05.2024) The month should be displayed in Chracters then as a number. Many other systems have this option, for example Jira, see example attached.
3 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Add additional functionality DocuSign Plugin

Need to have the ability to: 1) Allow the user submitting the document for signing to designate who the recipient is. Does not work in 3.1 2) Allow the user submitting the document for signing to edit the Email Body 3) Allow the user submitting th...
6 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Update CMOD to create UUID V7 values for Unique ID fields

We would like CMOD to create UUID Version 7 (timestamp+random) instead of UUID Version 4 (all random) for Unique ID fields as it would improve the database indexes for these fields. Version 4 and version 7 UUIDs can co-exist since they are identif...
25 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

Gitlab support for DMOE

Mortgage service company standardizes on Gitlab and they need to integrate Gitlub to their DMOE environment
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Under review

Return the full path (not just the immediate parent folder) of the business rule element in the DC REST API's.

Most business now employ DC REST API's for business reporting for business rules deployed in Business Console. The REST API's json response shows the listing all the business rules under the element list. For each business rules (both action rules...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

Disable shortcut popup in IBM Datacap Desktop

Hello, A user scans a batch by clicking on the “Scan” shortcut, the scanning interface opens. The user scans a batch, then clicks on “Submit”. A first popup appears, then disappears after 10 seconds. The scan interface closes and a second popup ap...
26 days ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

arsload option to suppress creation of Unique IDs

We have recently started using the Unique ID field in application groups as a permanent key to retrieve objects from CMOD.However, when rebuilding application groups using arsdoc get and arsload, the previously assigned Unique IDs will be thrown a...
26 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Under review

We need an OOTB process to bulk delete Cases and Case documents that have met retention guidelines

We need to make sure that records are disposed of in a timely manner and currently there is no straightforward process to delete the Case, Case documents and workflow assets. The discussion here about the Case Rest API seems to indicate it address...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Audit function for Workflow Status Change

When using API to interact with workflow in kie server, there is no out-of-box function on recording the change time/user who did the change e.t.c. Can we add these functions? (One way to achieve it is to enlarge the AUDITTASKIMPL table to include...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Under review