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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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IBM CP4BA (CPfs) should define a path to move from Embedded Postgres to External Postgres

Clients that started with the Embedded Postgres database for CPfs features want to move to an External Postgres database for improvements on maintainability & servicability. According to current documentation, only new environments can be crea...
24 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Planned for future release

Enable “hot reload” of SAP certificates without restarting ICCSAP

Currently, when a SAP certificate is renewed, ICCSAP must be restarted to load the new certificate. This means customers need to plan a maintenance window and ensure the certificate is updated before the old one expires. To reduce this dependency,...
about 1 month ago in Content Collector for SAP Planned for future release

Request to have a List View Functionality in Blueworks Live to have a list view for maps rather than tile view only.

Allow more maps to be viewed in a single screen.
2 months ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

Add an Owner attribute to Blueworks Live workspaces, visible in the UI and accessible via API.

User unable to see or set an Owner field when opening a workspace (specific Workspace) or through any API.
2 months ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

In ODM 8.12 API "import decision service on top of the existing branch" is not removing the deleted items from the existing branch

We published a decision service to Decision Center by using the API "/v1/decisionservices/import". Then, in Rule Designer we deleted a rule and created a new ZIP for the decision service. Now, we used the API "/v1/decisionservices/decisionServiceI...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Planned for future release

Safari 16+ and Firefox Support in BAMOE Canvas

Overview and Problem Statement The goal of this epic is to enable full support for Safari 16+ and Firefox (macOS and RHEL) when using BAMOE Canvas, by incorporating the fixes recently introduced in upstream KIE Canvas 0.23.0.These upstream changes...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Planned for future release

Allow for autocorrect/grammar check.

This would benefit everyone, because it is a small but powerful part of making the processes more sharp and professional. It is really not efficient to have to go through and manually change spellings of things because we can't click on the correc...
4 months ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

Include additional info about service task execution in data-index and data-audit

The customer requests to store the inputs and outputs of service task execution in the BAMOE database (both the data index and the data audit) in order to use this information in customised interfaces for auditing/monitoring and tracking purposes.
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Planned for future release

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 ...
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation Planned for future release

Management Console to provide roles and proper user segregation based on oidc authentication

Currently management console doesn't provide any roles. Any user once having access to management console can perform any action as there are no roles like in business central. Without proper role segregation and access management its not quite a ...
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Planned for future release