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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

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Toggle feature flags

The question around implementing feature toggles for ODM came up in one of our problem-solving workshop. There was a request for an update on any challenges to implementation or our next steps. Can we have feature level toggles in ODM? If already ...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Not under consideration

On MSSQL databases, CPE Property Definition or Template may summarily remove the underlying columns in the database.

Under certain circumstances and only on MSSQL, removing a CPE Property Definition or Template summarily removes the underlying columns in the database.
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Allow securing of the connection using mTLS from a client to the Decision Center API for REST API calls

Allow securing of the connection using mTLS from a client to the Decision Center API for REST API calls. We require more security than basic authentication when making REST API calls. mTLS will require the server and client to have the same certif...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Add the ability to OR conditions together in Saved Searches.

Our business is having to maintain multiple searches because they want to retrieve tasks that meet one condition OR another condition. The current saved search functionality forces them to have to monitor several different saved searches rather th...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add ant sync target "publish and reset" "retrieve and reset" for Business Console

Context :Ant tasks synchronisation with the Business Console Rationale : Using jenkins to perform automated synchronisation between a SCM (git/svn) and the Business Console triggers new needs for the ant sync tasks. One the the main problem is to ...
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Provide a Open API (aka Swagger File) for ALL BlueWorks Live REST APIs, including get OAuth token

Currently tools such as IBM Business Automation Workflow cannot directly call BWL APIs as there are no accurate and comprehensive Swagger files. This makes it very difficult to build a automated QA process for BWL blueprints.
11 months ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Command that returns the font color of the word or text

It would be interesting to have a command that identifies the color of the text or word written on the screen, returning the corresponding color to the user in an output value. In this case it could be said that if the returned color is red that t...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to delete credentials that have a relationship with disabled schedules

At the moment, it is only possible to delete a credential if it is not related to active and non-active scheduling. I request that it is possible to delete when scheduling is disabled.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

zRES logging behaviour - integration with z/OS Console

Hi all, ODM must be highly available (no outages allowed) and we must be able to react on very short notice (real-time) if a problem occurs. If ODM is not responding for whatever reason, all transactions will be blocked/cannot be executed. Current...
almost 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Enable users to create launchers based on machines

In the way that IBM RPA is designed today, Launchers created can be visualized by a group of users allowed, no matter which machine is executing Launcher application. The idea here is to add a computer filter as well, for example: 1. Launcher_VM1 ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration