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...
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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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    Support configurable transaction timeouts for REST API operations in IBM ODM to improve CI/CD pipeline reliability.

    Currently, IBM ODM only honors transaction timeout settings for the Business Console, while REST API operations do not reflect these configurations. This limitation affects use cases where long-running operations—such as importing branches or crea...
    5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 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...
    6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

    Support for Tracability, OpenTelemetry and Instrumentation to be able to use tools like Jaeger,Kiali

    There is need for tracing global transaction/request ID that starts with the platform UI and gets propagated to the various layers/components of CP4BA so that one can follow the transaction. Our clients are using OpenShift Service Mesh ( Istio ) a...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Not under consideration

    Support for Service Mesh/ISTIO on OpenShift for CP4BA

    Support for Service Mesh in CP4BA would be very helpful in enterprise installations. ISTIO is very popular and often this is a required by our clients. currently CP4BA does not support Service Mesh. This is helpful for: - mTLS (Mutual Transport La...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

    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) =================...
    6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Future consideration

    Task to be visible to all actors (team of actors) till action taken by any one of them

    The customer is using BAW for multiple processes. They have team of actors (approvers) at every step in the flow. Current behavior: When any actor from the team, opens the article from the TODO list, the article disappears from the TODO list of ot...
    5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Allow the approver in the flow to take action on bulk of items

    The customer is using BAW for multiple tasks. About 300 articles are created every day and may existing articles are edited. The flow has many approvers and one of them being the taxation team. Articles created by every department will have a taxa...
    5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Bulk creation / edit of article - Each article triggers a flow

    Similar to transaction systesms (like bank), where they allow us to download a template, fill the template with details for multiple transactions and upload in one go. This ends up triggering multiple transactions. The customer is using BAW for pr...
    5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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

    Support for reallocating a single BAW process application.

    We are in the middle of a migration to move away our process applications from iPas (Pure Systems) to another target platform. The preferred target platform will be CP4BA on OpenShift. However, there might be applications that somehow will not be ...
    6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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