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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 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
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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Increase the Case Manager in-basket filter to more than 200

The number of work items that are contained in an in-basket is displayed on the tab next to the in-basket name. The default paging size is 200 and is not configurable, as an IBM Content Navigator implementation. technote: In-baskets - IBM Document...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Request support for Oracle 23ai database for Business Automation Workflow

Business Automation Workflow does not currently support Oracle 23ai. This is important to customers currently on Oracle 19c, which will reach end of life in April 2026.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Jobs Page - Check bots that are running or pending

I want to request the following enhancements for the Jobs page: The Jobs page should filter and display both running and pending bots (if there are any at this state at the moment) , regardless of the specific script associated with them. This wil...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of the REST-API to filter rules based on metadata

We use the REST interface to display rules and tables from the Decision Center in the customer's standard applications. Only a certain part of the rules is of interest, never all of them. Therefore, only those rules that are relevant should be ret...
over 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Functionality already exists

Generate warnings for unused verbalizations in Rule Designer

Add a feature to Rule Designer that will automatically identify the unused or unreferenced verbalizations in a Decision Service. One of the performance issues noted in IBM's documentation is the amount of verbalized fields in a Decision Service's ...
over 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Looking to test/simulate multiple decision services

we need capability to test/simulate multiple decision services in decision center.
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Looking to create folders in TEST tab under business console

Currently, we don't have option to create user specific folders for testing in test tab decision center for decision services.
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

HTTP Error Page Customization for IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) on OpenShift

We are currently running IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) on OpenShift, with the workflow-server component (based on WebSphere ND) exposed externally via routes. During internal security assessments (pentesting), our security team at ...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

SSL Connection Between Content Collector for Email and Content Manager V8.7

As of today IBM Content Collector is not able to establish HTTPS/SSL secured connections to a Content Manager V8.7 repository. Functions affected are archiving, viewing & restore, search as well as full text indexing.
8 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Planned for future release

It is recommended to develop a mobile APP for CP4BA

ICN has a mobile APP, but Case and Workplace do not. It is very inconvenient for users to use the mobile client. It is recommended to develop a CP4BA mobile APP, which integrates all the functions of CP4BA such as ICN, Case, and Workplace, so as ...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration