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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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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  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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Add Columns to processes table to facilitate Migrations

Can these four specific columns be added natively to the processes table? initiator processInstanceDescription correlationKey sla_compliance Reasoning: Our current API layer relies on fetching this metadata directly from the process record. If the...
about 21 hours ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Under review

AI decision intelligent in ODM

Based on a given task, AI will be able to identify the decision service, create the change release, make change to the rule/decision table, and deploy the changes to the lower environment.
10 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Support direct upgrade from CP4BA 24.0.1 to CP4BA 26.0.0 on Openshift

We moved to BAW 24.0.1 traditional because it was the first version in which process instance migration from traditional to containers was possible. Since we wanted to move to containers quickly we did not wait for the 25.0.0 release. After we hav...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

Introduce authoring‑time validation (or mandatory warning) in IBM Operational Decision Manager to prevent saving decision table preconditions that contain unresolved placeholders (e.g., <a number>), which currently pass validation but fail during deployment.

IBM ODM allows users to save decision table preconditions that include unresolved placeholders without errors or warnings. Although these preconditions appear valid at design time, they consistently cause build or deployment failures. This creates...
8 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Enable Support for Secrets Store CSI for FNCM Standalone CNCF

To ensure feature parity with other DBA products (ODM on CNCF - existing; CP4BA - considered), the option to integrate FileNet Content Manager with external secrets stores that support Secret Store CSI Driver for additional security is important. ...
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Under review

Cater for User Task Events that mutate process variables

The application I'm working on is being migrated from BAMOEv8 to BAMOEv9. It makes heavy use of process event listeners and user task event listeners that evaluate business logic and update process variables. I have found there is some tension bet...
7 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Under review

Add support in IBM Operational Decision Manager Decision Center to export decision tables directly as CSV or flat files, including support through the Decision Center API.

Today, Decision Center Business Console allows exporting decision tables as Excel files only. There is currently no standard capability to directly export decision tables as CSV or flat files, and no Decision Center API support for this type of ex...
15 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Ability to pre populate query parameter from an external datasource

The customer's business users are heavy users of the the simulation feature. They have simulation configuration with query parameters which accept values for filtering the values of the simulation scenarios. There are times when the business users...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Support CM8 8.7.x with Oracle As A Service (OraaS)

CM8 requires the Library server to be installed on the database server. This is not possible when using Oracle As A Service because nothing can be installed next to the database service.
about 1 month ago in Content Manager (CM8) Under review

Need a cron job for cleaning up old cache directories

Today, ICN uses a PVC named icn-vw-cachestore to storage cached files. Each pod, when it comes up, creates a subdirectory named after itself for its own cached files. If the pods gets bounced for any reason, the pod that replaces it will create it...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

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