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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:

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 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...

All ideas

Unrelate Quick Filter authorisation from Manage Filter authorisation

Currently, we can avoid a user from using filters in Dashboards in Process Mining by revoking the filtering permission. This is a nice to have feature, but totally restricts both the public filters managed with the "Manage Filters" option and the ...
21 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release

slaDueDate not return on usertask instance

Unable to get slaDueDate on the task details with the User task subsysteme API Also, slaDueDate is not available from management console Can you do the necessary to make it available?
about 15 hours ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x 0 Submitted

OAuth 2.0/OIDC support for the CMOD REST APIs

Due to client security standards and integration requirements, OAuth 2.0/OIDC support for the CMOD REST APIs is important for this mission critical service.
about 18 hours ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

Add a new AI Task type at the activity level, similar to the existing User Task, Service Task, and Robotic Task types.

BWL shall provide an "AI Task" as a task type at the activity level, alongside the existing User Task, Service Task, and Robotic Task types. The AI Task shall represent activities performed by an AI capability to analyse data, generate content, ex...
2 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Extend FNCM operator to support PodTemplate Injection/Customization

In OCP, allow injection of Annotations, Labels, Mutating webhooks, Custom injection operators. 1) Extend native OpenShift/Kubernetes capabilities for a content cortex deployments, example supporting additional mounted file systems 2) Create a side...
18 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Additional fields in Glossary

Currently there are only two, maybe 3 column fields in the glossary. There should be the ability to add additional columns to the glossary terms with more useful information. For example there is only a column for term and one for description, we ...
3 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Ability to change text size

There should be a capability to adjust text size within activities. In the new modern experience, a lot of text gets cut off
3 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Highlight and select multiple lines of text in an activity

Should be able to highlight / select multiple lines in the activity ox to edit or delete in the modern experience
3 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Adjusting labels on connectors

Should be able to move the labels on gateway connectors to make the words align better in the modern experience. I should be able to free form move the text to be on top or bottom of the connector line
3 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Connector User Experience

Arrows do not auto adjust when dragging activities into a different place in the modern experience. there should be an "align middle" feature that lines activities to center or middle where the arrows would the auto adjust to be straight
3 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted