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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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Process instance migration when moving from traditional to container

IBM has a tool to migrate instances when it is traditional to traditional.The idea is a similar tool, however, to a different platform. Tool must perform a process instance migration from traditional to container platform.
2 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Submitted

Update Container Reference Architecture for CP4BA.

Our existing reference architecture for our container platform based CP4BA is 2 years old. Reference architecture is viewed as "table steaks" in terms of selling software. It is requested in EVERY RFP/RFI. It is often requested/required by our cli...
22 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

Modernize the Decision Center GUI to streamline the access of information and improve the user experience while viewing and editing rules.

Improve the overlook look and feel of the GUI. Allow a way to view correlations between decision tables in a graphical topology. Allow data integrity to be maintained across related decision tables.
24 minutes ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Enhance merging features

Ability to graphically compare the changes to a rule flow. Ability to compare files in page rather than a separate modal window. Ability to view comparison for all files in a single page. Currently, whenever there are conflicts in a file, the only...
about 1 hour ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Send email notifications when the status of an activity changes.

Examples: Notify the approver he/she has been assigned as an approver. Notify approver the activity is ready to be approved. Notify when an activity has been approved.
about 1 hour ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Integration the Decision Center with Version Control systems (TFS, Git, etc.)

Currently, the manual packaging and publication of XOM and Utility files from developer’s workstations via Rule Designer not only hinder efficiency but also pose significant security, governance, and code integrity concerns. Integrating the Decisi...
about 1 hour ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Automated Blue/Green deployment of RuleApps.

On the Cloud version of ODM, when RuleApps are deployed and while a ruleset is being parsed, new requests to the ruleset are blocked until the ruleset is fully parsed. To alleviate this issue, we have a manual process to break the communication be...
about 1 hour ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Systematic enforcement that the Approver cannot also be the Author of a change activity.

Allow the administrator to choose if the enforcement of this new constraint: The Approver of a change activity cannot also be the author of the same change activity. Enforcement of this constraint will ensure separation of duty is followed.
about 1 hour ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Automated certificate rotation

Add a feature to ODM to allow automated certificate rotation tools to automatically feed the new certificate to ODM and have ODM switch to the new certificate. Certificate lifetimes is shrinking. Continuing to manage certificates manually is not r...
about 2 hours ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Implement RMVRPTOND at the iSeries over to a remote server

Hello, Would like to see the RMVRPTOND command at the iSeries over to a remote server (MP) implemented as it is the case on iSeries. Thanks, Olivier Baltus
1 day ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted