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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 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

Provide a legend for all maximo mobile application icons

When working with any of the Maximo Mobile applications, there is no way for an end user to know what the icons mean. They can guess by the design of the icon, but until the icon is activated there is uncertainty. Please provide a way to see a leg...
about 24 hours ago in Enterprise Records 0 Submitted

Business Automation Navigator: make the desktop default feature configurable in Platform and Content mode

EnvironmentCP4BA version: 24.0.1Navigator: 3.1.0, build icn310.0802.4Navigator mode: Platform and Content (navigatorMode 2)Configuration database migrated from IBM Content Navigator on traditional WebSphereReference system: IBM Content Navigator 3...
about 20 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Provide the BAMOE 8.x Classic BPMN Editor as an independent VS Code extension with its own lifecycle

We request that the Classic BPMN Editor required to maintain BAMOE 8.x / jBPM-compatible BPMN assets be provided and maintained as an independent VS Code extension, with a lifecycle separate from the BAMOE 9.x Developer Tools and New BPMN Editor. ...

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 ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release

Support seamless Microsoft Entra ID SSO between IBM Content Navigator and IBM Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) while preserving CMOD authorization model. Running on ARO.

The important Automotive Customer is modernizing its content archive environment by deploying IBM Navigator on OpenShift(ARO) and migrating enterprise authentication to Microsoft Entra ID. Navigator can already authenticate users via Entra ID, but...
11 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 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...
29 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Provide a native, configurable hard block that prevents a user from claiming or starting more than one Work Item (WID) at a time, applicable across all case types.

IBM Business Automation Workflow currently allows users to claim and work on multiple Work Items (WIDs) simultaneously across different browser sessions or tabs. This capability creates data discrepancy issues and operational challenges in product...
4 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

We want a way to selectively synchronize only users, ODM role mappings, and Zen API keys between two existing Foundational Services environments.

there is no documented or supported procedure to selectively synchronize only users, ODM role mappings, and Zen API keys between two existing Foundational Services environments. This is what we need with a DR Environment and a production environme...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Needs more information

Shared component Library

Currently Activities and gateways can be reused in the shared component library. However, it is critical to add the functionality to allow sub activity objects to be reused. For example if I create an activity that has 10 sub activities, or a "chu...
20 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Parent Activity Inheritance

There should be a functionality that rolls up the data from the object beneath it. For example, if I have a milestone that has 10 activities underneath it and each of those activities are performed by a different system. Blueworks should automatic...
20 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release