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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 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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Authorization (view/update/create) to specfic rule(s)/package to a group on Decison Center

Hello Team, Can we allow view/update only to few set of rules(Action Rules, decision tables, packages etc) to a group in a rule project on Decison Center? I have a project which has many decison tables but I need to allow update for few selected d...
1 day ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Server-Side Validation for Read-Only Case Properties

The read-only setting for case properties in the Case client UI (runtime) is applied only at the view level and does not enforce restrictions at the backend Case Manager REST API level. The CaseManager API and CaseClient plugin service are designe...
4 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Submitted

Enhance Verbalization Display in New Editor to Support Full Rule Descriptions

In version 8.12, the new editor truncates rule verbalization to 50 characters, making it difficult for users to view complete rule descriptions. The new editor should support word wrap or provide an option to view the full verbalization of rules, ...
about 22 hours ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Add the option 'Right Click' to command Click on Web Page

It would be useful to add this enhancment to the command to avoid unnecessary workrounds ( get coordinates of element via window indentifications, attaching window and use mouse command ). This workround also proved more times ineffective or was n...
17 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

EC to BC migration: Business rule version history no longer shows the "Used In"

When you look at a rule history in the Enterprise Console, you get a column "Used In" It shows for each version which branches / baseline uses this version of the rule. However, this information is missing in the Business Console. Not available in...
16 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Under review

User Account Activity API

Hi Team, In BWL from Community tab, under "Account Activity Stream" we need "User wise activity" export using an API on monthly basis. We have option in BWL UI as manual export but its very time consuming when we try to export for more users. If w...
8 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Allow to use config map/secret to mount files to ODM pod

The client have some common 3rd party library jar files shared by different rulesets, instead of putting them in XOM lib for each ruleset, they want these classes to be loaded only once. So they are fine to use downloadURL for these files. But the...
3 days ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Submitted

Support inflight instance migration from BAW to CP4BA for Microsoft SQL Server

As per CP4BA v24.0.1 documentation, there is support for instance migration from BAW to CP4BA. However, this feature comes with a limitation that it is supported only for DB2 database. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0....
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Upgrade to MS SQL 2022 Compatibility Level to 2016 while on IBM P8 BAW 21.0.3.x before upgrading to BAW 24.0.x

Customers need to update their MS SQL Server environment to 2022 ASAP and request that they run it in SQL Server Compatibility Level 2016, which the customer is presently on (SQL Server 2016 SP2) before they upgrade to BAW 24.0.x on new hardware.
4 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Enable Configuration of "Allows Null Values" Parameter for Database Index Creation in ACCE

We would like to request an enhancement to the FileNet Content Platform Engine (CPE) ACCE to address a limitation in the current functionality regarding database index creation. Problem Statement: When creating database indexes via ACCE, the "Allo...
4 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted