Skip to Main Content
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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

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

Showing 2142

Integration the Decision Center with Version Control systems (TFS, Git, etc.)

Currently, the manual packaging and publication of XOM and Utility files from developer’s workstations via Rule Designer not only hinder efficiency but also pose significant security, governance, and code integrity concerns. Integrating the Decisi...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Automated Blue/Green deployment of RuleApps.

On the Cloud version of ODM, when RuleApps are deployed and while a ruleset is being parsed, new requests to the ruleset are blocked until the ruleset is fully parsed. To alleviate this issue, we have a manual process to break the communication be...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Automated certificate rotation

Add a feature to ODM to allow automated certificate rotation tools to automatically feed the new certificate to ODM and have ODM switch to the new certificate. Certificate lifetimes is shrinking. Continuing to manage certificates manually is not r...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Add group feature in ICN search templates

The customer is designing search templates in ICN where we are using the "Add Group" functionality to add different groups in the search criteria so as to have the "Or match all of these properties" condition between the groups. For the above func...
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

Add date time range filter to the process instances search

All IBM RPA users who has process created to their projects
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

CMOD 10.5 System Log to a file

I would like to be able to see the System Log in Cloud Watch or Sumo Logic or Data Dog or Slunk like application. Most of these ingest via a file on the OS. Would be great to be able to add something to the configuration to simply log this output ...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration

Implement RMVRPTOND at the iSeries over to a remote server

Hello, Would like to see the RMVRPTOND command at the iSeries over to a remote server (MP) implemented as it is the case on iSeries. Thanks, Olivier Baltus
6 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 5

Better Variable Scope

As in other programming languages, variable scope would be very useful when calling subroutines. Subroutines should have in and out locally scoped variables that are set in the same way variables are set when calling executeScript
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Rename of variables in web pd

Allow the renaming of variables over the whole process app in the web pd. Including scripts.
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Conversion tool for Heritage Human Services in BPM

Many long-time customers have large numbers of heritage artifacts, such as Heritage Human Services. There is no tool available to convert Heritage Human Services to a CSHS with the SPARK toolkit; you would have to recreate the entire UI by hand. A...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration