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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 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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Tag value should be more flexible to allow REST Response JSON example to handle multiple values for a property

Currently, the IlrTag value is set to a String.Because of this, when setting multiple values to a property, then retrieving this value with REST API: /v1/projects/{projectId}/rules the result is a single string with the multiple values as one comm...
13 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Future consideration

Make ODM compatible with EC2 Graviton instances

Itaú Bank uses ODM on AWS in an ECS cluster with Docker Containers and EC2 instances. The company is aiming to use EC2 Graviton instances to reduce costs and improve performance, but currently, ODM is not compatible with these instances. The goal ...
19 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Disable Processing of ALL annotations of documents for DaeJa Viewer

Content Navigator currently processes all annotations of a document for the DaeJa viewer, giving error messages when Annotations are not having XML format, and maybe more severe problems in case they have XML format, but not the one for DaeJa view...
25 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Predefined nested sorting for inbasket

Load the inbaskets with pre defined nested sorting (More than 1 field) Allow users / admins to change the fields based on needs. Persist the nested sort after the filter
25 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Add an export button to the Project security tab

During upgrades, as administrators of the product, we have a need to track which area has migrated their project(s) to the next version of ODM and we don't have an identifier on the projects for ownership outside of the project security group. We'...
26 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Future consideration

Change configuration table to use 32K page size

Please refer to RTC Collaboration 137316. The customer is having issues with HADR failover and a limitation was found which could be a problem. The ATTRIBUTE column in ICNDB.CONFIGURATION has INLINE LENGTH 16K which means 16K is allowed and can be...
29 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

CPE Object Store is not optimized documents with lots and lots of versions

Customer has versions series with 90,000 superseded versions and another case with 250,000. The objective is to delete all versions except the current version (want to delete 249,999 obsolete versions). Below is the diagnosis of the customer that ...
about 1 month ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Improve Search Functionality in New Editor

The new editor's search functionality has two critical issues: Incorrect Partial Matching: When searching for a term like "vip", the editor returns domains containing partial matches ( "ip" within "Tipo") instead of exclusively matching "vip". Thi...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Add support for MS SQL Server and/or AWS RDS for Business Automation Workflow (BAW) on Containers (not CP4BA).

We are an IBM partner, and our long-term IBM Case Management Federal customer is migrating from IBM Case Manager on a Linux environment to Containers on AWS. The backend database is MS SQL Server. Currently, BAW on Containers does not support MS S...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Mark documents that have annotation(s) in content lists with a symbol

Users would like to see in search result lists that a document has annotations without the need to open every document.
about 1 month ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration