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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:

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
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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BAW to support MS SQL Always On Availability feature

BAW to support the MS SQL Always On Availability. this is critical functionality with benefits for High Availability and in replicating environments to the DR site.
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

IBM CMOD OpenShift Operator (Day-1/Day-2 automation, HA patterns, ODF-ready)

Deploying and operating CMOD on containers still requires many manual steps (sizing, PVCs, routes, upgrades, backups, HA tuning). Inconsistent setups slow delivery and increase risk during upgrades and recoveries. Please provide a Red Hat certifie...
5 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

Support for distributed databases

We would like to request if distributed databases such as tdsql and GaussDB would be added to the database compatibility list for BAW and Datacap ?
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Permitir alterar a versão do agendamento sem ter que fazer um novo

Permitir que trocamos a versão do robô agendado no TENANT sem ter que excluir o agendamento antigo.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Federated Process portal task list refresh on events

Currently, the federated tasks list for work or any saved search is refreshed periodically (default: 60 seconds). This behavior is causing confusion for customers, as they are unsure whether their tasks are being completed until they manually refr...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Return "error" object in onError event handler for BAW Service Data Table UI component

The Service Call UI component in BAW returns an "error" object in the onError event handler so the developer has access to details about the error and can even display for the user, if desired. This request is simply to add the same for "error" ob...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Create a new status to differentiate between a bot that starts and fail, and a bot that fails to start

When a bot fails, the Web Client shows the status as "failed", but thats the same message for then bot starts and fails after it. The reason this is needed is that it's two completly different types of investigations. When a bot fails to start, th...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Text-Based Process Catalogue (PDF Export of Space)

In Blueworks, you can create a PDF of a single Process Blueprint for printing, or you can export an entire Space (including its Subspaces) into Excel. I would like to suggest a feature for exporting a Space, along with all its Subspaces, into a si...
11 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Option to filter out or hide items in the merge panel result that are of the same contents and only have version number differences.

Merging activity across releases in Decision Center with Governance Framework results in many differences being shown on unchanged items – due to version number differences. We would like to have option to filter out or hide items in the merge pan...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Not under consideration

Allow ODM sample server to run with OUT Admin rights

In ODM 8.10.0 and all previous versions, admin rights were not required to run Rule Designer or to start/stop the sample server. During Fannie Mae's testing of ODM 8.10.5.1 and ODM 8.11.1, they noticed admin rights are required to start/stop the s...
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Not under consideration