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:

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...
Share feedback 8
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
Share feedback 0

All ideas

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    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 13 hours ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Submitted

    CP4BA - Import Process Mining KPIs

    It would be great to have the import capability in the KPIs list. It is heavy duty when you want to reuse KPIs on another project and you have to create one by one. Maybe it is already a thing on the new release since I am using 2.0.3. Thanks in a...
    6 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Submitted

    Button to remove all variables with 0 reference

    After finishing more robust developments it would be nice to have a button which would automatically delete all variables which in the final status of development have 0 references. Now we have to scroll through the variables panel and remove one ...
    21 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Planned for future release

    Support for presenting client certificates during outbound HTTPS calls does not exist.

    Currently, Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) does not provide a straightforward mechanism to configure mutual SSL (client certificate authentication) for outbound HTTP/SOAP web service calls. This limitation impacts customers who need to s...
    about 8 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Need a mechanism in BAMOE to allow dynamic rule updates

    Need a mechanism in BAMOE to allow dynamic rule updates so that business users can modify existing rules (e.g., add new conditions or fields) without going through the full redevelopment and redeployment lifecycle. Expecting to have this via custo...
    about 14 hours ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Submitted

    Ability to Configure Custom Starting Values for Instance IDs and Task IDs

    Request for a configurable option that allows IBM BAW administrators to define custom initial values for Workflow Instance IDs and Task IDs. In the current IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) implementation, all environments start generating In...
    3 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Process Admin: Prevent synchronizing users that return in user searches in BAW, BAStudio

    By default, all users returned from a user search are automatically added to the BAW database tables. This behavior can become problematic when a Process Admin user search returns a large number of users, resulting in unnecessary data being insert...
    3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    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.
    3 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

    Get BAI to be more flexible in the naming settings

    Context and Requirements Our organization has a convention of exposing all external services on the bdapps.* domain rather than apps.*. On our namespaces, we add the label type=bdapps, which causes the “bdapps” router to be used instead of the def...
    about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    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. ...
    about 1 month ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

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