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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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Flexibility for a subset of users to build and run Blueworks Live reports on demand without the need for deep knowledge of API exports, including approvals.

Need easier report generation capabilities to support regulatory requirements. This is pretty standard functionality in the Saas space, so customer is hoping the engineers for BWL are already building something like this. Reporting and archiving o...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Not able to merge changes specific to deployment query and operations from Decision Center Change activity into release.

Not able to deploy the changes specific to deployment query and operations from an ODM service Release in Decision Center into PROD RES because we are not able to merge the changes from Change Activity to Release. We upgraded to 8.11 version and t...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

For Sox Compliance also add IP address /device info when updating the rules

Many clients are taking SOX chapter 5 ( IT controls ) as a general guidelines for SOX. Chapter 5 best pratice is to keep not only who did the change but also the device info ( IP, device type ) of who changed the content ( in the case of ODM who c...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Add Single sign-on (SSO) and OAuth parity in CP4BA as it is in traditional IBM BAW

Customers who rely on external Identity providers would not be able to easily migrate from IBM BAW to CP4BA as a lot of features are outright missing from CP4BA but are present in IBM BAW. For example: there is no way to use Foundational IAM to re...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Native connector with watsonx.ai

Create new connector with watsonx.ai that allow to consume foundational models deployed in this tool. This will bring flexibility to clients.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Give "Apply dashboard filters" button to the JSPlugin widgets

There is a button for non-custom widgets to enable/disable the dashboard filters. However, there is no such a function for the JSPlugin widgets.I know by changing JS code one can write filters for the JSPlugin widget, but it will be quite inconven...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Allow admin to globally prevent user amending their email and business unit

We use the Business Unit flag to allocate users costs to specific cost centres Currently, the user can edit that data at any time which breaks our cost allocation reporting Please can you add a admin option to make this data read only for the user...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

ODM 8.12.0.1 - Detailed System Requirements must indicate that it supports Liberty 23.0.0.3 and future fix packs as it does in 8.12.0.0

IBM Operational Decision Manager 8.12.0.1 - Detailed System Requirements must indicate that it supports Liberty v23.0.0.3 and future fix packs as it does in 8.12.0.0. https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity-reports/report/html/s...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Is a defect

RES DW page needs to limit the max number of results returned

RES DW page needs to limit the number of results returned to the UI no matter what is queried by the UI. This is needed because currently the RES Console UI Pod crashes and our end users would not always be super technical or know they might be ru...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Is a defect

Ability to change the default document sorting order in Case Information widget

Allowing admin/Case Developer to chose the metadata and order to sort document in the Case Information Widget. Today documents are sorted by the first column. It could be useful to case worker to improve their document treatment.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release