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 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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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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    ODM Standalone Operator

    We currently utilise the Helm chart installation of ODM but would prefer a standalone operator to be made available. Support provided option with CP4BA, but we would like something else avoids unnecessary dependence on Cloud Pak Foundational Servi...
    1 day ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

    Option to disable Warnings for empty conditions on DT during deployment

    During deployment, lots of warnings are displayed on deployment report: There is a warning "col: 4, line: 1: The Otherwise condition inverses a large number of conditions. Performance might be impacted." Which is expected if there are more than 50...
    13 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

    Disabling PVC checks in Workflow-operator

    IBM Team, Workflow operator pod (which I believe unlike the content-operator) automatically checks for the PVC size, and If any configuration added under baw_configuration section it won't be picked up because of the following error: "PersistentVo...
    28 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Under review

    Support for MongoDB

    Currently BAMOE 9 does not support non-SQL db such as Mongo DB, and wondering if we can have support for this
    about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Under review

    Creating queries outside of the Decision Center

    We would like to create queries outside of Decision center. We noticed using the REST API that there's no option or endpoint to do this currently.
    about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

    Enhancement for ARSXML - Option to update ALL tables when switching a field between Index and Filter on the AG

    The GUI allows you to decide whether or not to update all of the existing tables or only new ones going forward when flipping a field between Filter and Index however ARSXML does not have the capability. Allowing ARSXML this feature would mean we ...
    about 2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

    We want to be able to choose format for dates in exporting decision table to Excel.

    in IBM ODM Decision Center 9.5, whenever we export a decision table to XLSX, dates are written in the format M/D/Y H:MM:SS AM/PM. Is there a possibility to change the format to Y-M-D HH:MM:SS. Example: Instead of 08/31/2025 03:00:00 PM, we would l...
    about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

    Support for POSTGRESQL

    We currently deploy CMOD on AIX and do not have the ability to use POSTGRESQL as database. POSTGRESQL is our db of choice moving forward.
    about 2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

    Allow IBM ODM Rule Designer to configure and use multiple OIDC scopes (per provider) for Entra ID/Azure AD authentication

    When using IBM ODM Rule Designer with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) via OIDC, Rule Designer currently allows only a single scope to be configured through the JVM parameter: -Dcom.ibm.rules.studio.oidc.synchro.scopes=xxx/.default This works only if...
    about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

    In Cloud pak for business automation, We need to update the certs in the odm_configuration.customization.trusted_certificate_list with a managed restart of the ODM Pods

    At the moment, when we change the certificate we have all pods restarting at the same time. This is causing a huge business impact and requires downtime which is not planned. This would benefit anyone looking to change certificates due to underlyi...
    2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

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