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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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Add SharePoint Support to Cloud based storage options

SharePoint allows managing files, and content collaboration for teams and organization across Microsoft 365. This product integration support is for future and existing RPA customer, who would like to use RPA to streamline their business operation...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

Integration of IBM BAW BPEL with IBM Transformation extender maps over RestAPI - OpenAPI 3.x using REST import binding

Integration of IBM BAW BPEL with IBM Transformation extender maps over RestAPI - OpenAPI 3.x using REST import binding. Background: We used to integrate BAW with IBM ITX through mediation modules, as mediation modules used to have ITX primitive to...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

We would like to integrate Business automation workflow with co-pilot

Integration of BAW with co-pilot would allow coding to be much quicker
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Cleaning Process Engine Event Logs - Add option for leaving user defined log entries behind

This idea would be to add an option to the pelog cleanup program for the Process Engine Event log to leave user defined log entries behind. User defined log entries are defined in the documentation as log entries with a type field higher than 1000.
11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Customizable activity box sizes in order view all text within it on the pdf exports - possible tooltip

The customer is really looking for a way to see all text within an activity box when it is exported to pdf. They're asking if they can customize the size of the activity box so it will be printed as is. Development comments for this: As per our im...
11 months ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

BAMOE Canvas application integration with Azure DevOps repositories.

Currently BAMOE 9 mentions GIT support only for GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Cloud. Adding Azure DevOps repositories as the provider option will provide customers with additional option and flexibility.
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Future consideration

ODM RES "Creation Date" is from when the deployment artifact is kicked off from Decision Center and not when it was deployed to the RES.

The "Creation Date" is from Decision Center, but from an audit perspective we need to be able to evidence when the ruleset was deployed to the RES. These times can be roughly the same if you push from directly form Decision Center to the RES, but ...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

ODM native support for password vault integration (ex. CyberArk)

Currently, ODM requires passwords to either be hardcoded or injected on deployment. This has resulted in some custom code on our side because we aren't able to have ODM make a call to CyberArk using an Alias to retrieve the service account/passwor...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Provide a java class/method that can create a teamspace based on a template, usable from an event handler or navigator service

It appears most/all of the code to create teamspaces is embedded in Content Navigator. That requires someone to navigate a UI to create a teamspace. This idea is to provide a simple Java entry point that takes a teamspace template and allows you t...
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Return load error details through CMOD REST API calls

Right now, when a file fails to load to OnDemand through the CMOD REST client, it returns a generic error message in the "status" field: Failed: Failed to commit Load. Please consult the System Log for additional information. RC = 2096 Message = T...
11 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration