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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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Replicate EventListener Lifecycle in BAMOE9.2

Hello, after talking with support they told us that the Task & Processes Lifecycle events are not the same in BAMOE8 and BAMOE9. This is the resume they sent to us: Summary of gap: Feature BAMOE 8.x (jBPM) BAMOE 9.x (Kogito) =================...

Need Content Manager OnDemand to support IMDSV2

AWS and security guidelines are pushing for IMDSv2 to improve the security posture and prevent credential exfiltration and information leakage through SSRF. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/configuring-instance-metadata-service....
almost 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) Delivered

Permission to delete or hide all types of dashboards including the Dashboards "Monitoring" and "Daily Monitoring"

It would be nice to have the option to hide or exclude the standard TENANT dashboards ("Monitoring" and "Daily Monitoring") since in some cases the user, when activate the loop presentation mode, would have to be forced to see these 2 dashboards i...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Delivered

Allow business managers to view and manage all the tasks for a given BAW solution

In the BAW documentation it is mentioned in the "Configuring in-baskets for roles" section that "You can assign this in-basket to a manager or supervisor role in addition to a personal in-basket" but there is also a note that says that from V20.0....
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Delivered

When a scheduled bot fails to run, have it create a failed job

It is not uncommon for scheduled bots to just not run. At times when it fails to run, no job will be created, and there is no indication that the scheduled job has failed since it just never ran. It could potentially be days before anyone realizes...
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Delivered

Support for AS400 terminal (TN5250)

Currently there is no terminal support for AS400 yet
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Delivered

RPA Support for Edge

We need to support Edge for IBM RPA
almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Delivered

Linked 'From' and Linked 'To' - processes to be displayed for user with Viewer licenses

In 'Process summary', or 'where used', the Linked 'From' published processes and Linked 'To' published processes is visible to an Editor. The same feature to be made available for Viewer licence as well.
about 5 years ago in Blueworks Live Delivered

FTS Search and normal search should help each other and not have their own world

Today if you search with FTS only, then it will search only via the Full Text Search engine. If you search via the search criteria (without using the FTS search), then the search will search through the metadata of CMOD Now, the problem is, when y...
over 5 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) Delivered

The user who terminates a running BPM Instance is not captured

When a valid logged in the Process Inspector terminates a running process that has active ready user tasks waiting on another Assignee, it terminates the process and closes the task. But it appears that the assigned user worked on the task while n...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Delivered