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
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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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All ideas

    Decision Table Precondition – Unused Variable Warning Flag Enhancement

    If you have unused variables in an action rule it causes a warning and underlines the variable informing the developer of the issue. With a Decision Table if you have unused variables that are created in the preconditions tab they do not cause war...
    about 4 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    New user name (LSW_USR_XREF.USER_NAME) should be updated if re-created regardless of upper and lower case changes.

    BAW manages user as case insensitive. So if re-creating user again with different case(ex. old='TESTUSER', new='testuser'), BAW treats new lowercase user as the same user as old uppercase user. We understand that this is working as designed, and n...
    almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Datacap Navigator Verify - Request the ability to execute an Alternate Task Profile and submit the batch in a single step

    In clients system, an additional task profile was developed that allows users to reject a batch from Datacap Navigator during the Verify step. To complete this process, the user must first click the Reject Batch button and then click Submit to fin...
    5 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

    Business user expecting to add inline comments or block comments in rule content. Currently we have capability to add comments in Documentation section however business user cannot add comments specific to any lines and for any block.

    This will help business users better understand the rule functionality and enable them to maintain a clear change log directly within the rules.
    5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

    Datacap Navigator 9.19 shortcut in Job Monitor to contain a total count of bathes for the task.

    Please see example in screen print. For example: I have two shortcuts. One for "navigator scan" shortcut and one for Verify shortcut. Customer would like a total count in parentheses on "Navigator Scan" total and the same for Verify short customer
    5 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 4 Under review

    We wish ODM would make Decision Governance Framework as a default so that application teams can defaulted to use it rather than giving them an option.

    Security compliance in our organization and they follow Decision Governance Framework can dra
    5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

    Swimlane selectable color option

    With the option to select a color for each individual swimlane everyone can easily see who does what at first sight. This would improve the readability of the BPNM diagram. A good start would be to have a few predefined colors in the canvas and th...
    5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

    Make the administrative functions web-enabled

    Content Collector (ICC) currently requires administrators or operations specialists to remote desktop directly to the servers to create/update/execute task routes and to gather logs. If the administrative interface was web-enabled, this would redu...
    over 3 years ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Planned for future release

    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...
    over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Functionality already exists

    Incorporate the Vision selector to setValue so that they can automate directly from the "getVault" to a webpage without field selectors

    A customer cannot directly pass a value from "getValut" to a web page that doesn't have any field selectors or element ID
    over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

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