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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 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...
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

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Customize helm chart templates to allow management of the route configuration and a parameter to manage the hostname per container

I would like to be able to customize the helm chart templates to allow management of the route configuration with a parameter to manage the hostname per container. The current setup gives one hostname in the helm chart, but this doesn't help me to...
4 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

Need to move xom-libraries folder in order to deploy the files that are built using Maven build command

Context: This is regarding the build command using maven. The customer is on 9.0/ Windows. He has multiple projects he used to build with eclipsec. But after upgrading to 9.0 he was trying build command. The customer used maven to build the sample...
27 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Retrieving passwords from Hashicorp Vault without Secrets Store CSI interface

Use Vault CLI image as a init-container to fetch secrets from Hashicorp Vault Echo out secrets to volume Mount Volume to ODM pods
5 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

Add command to switch iframes for web automations with IBM RPA

Many webpages and especially ones which are being used to download various reports based on filters etc, but in general more robust pages, now usually include more then 1,2 iframes. It would be 100% flexibility and efficiency improvement if there ...
about 1 month ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

Official Helm Chart Support for IBM Cloud Pak Workflow Process Services (wfps)

Provide Official Helm Chart Support for Cloud Pak Workflow Process Services (wfps)Our organization's current deployment and lifecycle management practices for IBM Cloud Pak Workflow Process Services (wfps) do not fully leverage the benefits of sta...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Pod Disruption Budget (PDB) Support for IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA)

Request for Enhancement: Implement Pod Disruption Budget (PDB) Support for CP4BA Custom Resources Currently, the deployment of IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) components via its Custom Resources (CRs) and associated operators lacks n...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Implement a simple server-to-server single sign on in CP4BA

We have a remote service that uses JWT tokens for authentication, and we need to interact with it while executing a service flow. We need to use the same user that is executing it. We'd like to use the same authorization. We would reuse the JWT to...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Enable Runtime Access to Secrets in CP4BA Applications

In the current implementation of CP4BA 24.0.1, while it is possible to create and store secrets securely, there is no built-in mechanism to retrieve these secrets dynamically at runtime from within a BAW application—either from a service flow or J...
19 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Under review

Enable configuring jvm_customize_options using secret.

There is a configuration option in the custom resource (ICP4ACluster) called: spec.baw_configuration[].jvm_customize_options / spec.workflow_authoring_configuration.jvm_customize_options. Here you can specify variables for the JVM running baw/bas....
17 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

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...
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review