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
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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...
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All ideas

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    Process mining - additional suggestions (guidelines) for errors

    Adding hints to help resolve a given error Adding, in the form of a comment or an additional box, information on how to solve the error (e.g. No such column "eventlog.endtime_ts"), such as providing the exact path to the tab, step or file where yo...
    8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

    Ansible module to deploy CP4BA

    We have been deploying Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) using the cert-kubernetes package via the cp4a-deployment.sh script. Since certain organizations recommend deploying software using Ansible, we would like to submit this idea for cre...
    2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Allow for use of workload identities with Microsoft Entra ID

    The concept of non-human accounts doesn’t exist in Microsoft Entra ID typically applications where no human interaction is involved use OAuth client credential flow as explained here (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity-platform/v2-oa...
    3 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 1 Future consideration

    Task mining - the ability to classify several tasks at once

    Task mining - the ability to classify several tasks at once At the Task Classification stage, after filtering out specific applications, it should be possible to classify several tasks at the same time within specific applications. This solution g...
    5 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

    Preserving sequence of toolkits when importing process apps

    One of the steps during the migration is exporting all the process applications from existing process center on IPas (Workflow Center on Traditional WAS) and importing them into a new / empty process center on container / OpenShift platform (CP4BA...
    9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Ability to select text from eml and docx. files rendered in Daeja ViewONE Virtual viewer

    We have received request from our Daeja Virtual user base in which they are unable to select text from .eml and .docx files. We are able to select text from PDF's.
    22 days ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted

    Add possibility of Customization of filebeat.yml

    Hello It looks like that possibilty of the configuration of filebeat is minimal, only enable it by define filebeat-output.yml and add external output. It is not possible customization of filebeat.yml file by adding aditional processors for logs pa...
    2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Feature enhancement request for Content Manager API to support multi-threading.

    We have been consistently experiencing issue with ICN which is related to how the application is utilized. It looks like users are opening multiple browser sessions when using ICN which in turn are creating web container threads deadlocks. These a...
    almost 2 years ago in Content Manager (CM8) 1 Future consideration

    Process minig - additional field with hint or explanation

    Process mining - additional fields with hint or explanation In the tab Data&Settings/KPIs/KPI benchmarks/Edit process KPIs or Edit activity KPIs are parameters: "Case duration thresholds", "Case cost thresholds", "Activity throughout threshold...
    8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

    Content Assistant Client Managed should describe approach to determine and limit Authorized Users

    As of Dec 2025, Content Assistant Client Managed Software is entitled through Authorized Users, which leads to the question how access to the feature and the related license cost can be controlled and limited. Using Content Navigator, the ICN desk...
    23 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

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