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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:

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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,

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  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

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Add CMIS‑style offset/limit pagination support to the FileNet GraphQL API

FileNet’s GraphQL API only provides token‑based pagination, which requires clients to store and reuse a continuation token. This is difficult for distributed systems or lightweight clients that don’t keep state. Adding an optional offset/limit pag...
2 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Option to keep the TextSelection button always enabled for selection

Option to keep the TextSelection button always selected/enabled using a parameter. Currently the button is a toggle and the user has to click to enable the button for selection
2 days ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted

ability to reference same document (base part) across multiple item types

instead of storing duplicate documents that may be needed across multiple item types the different item types can reference the same base part gives the ability to have different metadata on each item type that is linked to that base part
3 days ago in Content Manager (CM8) 0 Submitted

Add option to hide parameters structure from error messages

Hi Team It is requested a way to remove or disable the rule properties/parameters to be fully displayed on error messages for HTDS responses During few attempts it is possible to get all properties/parameters needed to complete the request. What i...
3 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Native Deployment scheduling feature within IBM Decision Center

We recommend introducing a native deployment scheduling feature within IBM Decision Center. This capability would allow business users to define a specific date and time for deploying rule changes to the Decision Server without requiring external ...
4 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Be able to customize local time in ODM rather than show UTC

In ODM deployed through CP4BA. Inside the RES console under the 'Decision Warehouse', the searches are showing dates that do not match that of the system where the query is being run from.
4 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Add an option (maybe in Decision Deployment Configuration) to disable DT overlap and gap checks

For projects with large number of DTs, overlap and gap checking can take a long time at ruleset building. With this option at project level, it allows user to turn on these checking at rule authoring time, without impact the ruleset build time at ...
5 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Enable fetching of oidc access_token from zen/foundational services to use for authenticating downstream services.

It is useful because it would enable us to authentienticate downstream services (BAW external services) with access_token generated from OIDC flow (and ideally compatible with this: Invoking CP4BA APIs using custom authentication tokens). From BAW...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Library support - kie-dmn-xls2dmn-cli

We have moved to latest libraries (\bamoe-9.3.1-maven-repository\bamoe-maven-repository-zip-9.3.1-ibm-0006), but "kie-dmn-xls2dmn-cli" dependency was not found which is available in central maven repo (https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.kie...
6 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 2 Needs more information

To extend the current indent guide line and/or to change font size in designer mode to increase the number of lines included.

In complex automations developed in IBM Robotic Process Automation Designer, workflows often contain multiple nested conditions, loops, and exception-handling blocks that are currently displayed at the same visual level. This makes large scripts d...
6 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted