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

    request to support credential override through projects like we had for schedulers

    This would be helpful for Customer to simplify daily work
    almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

    Enhancement Request: Handling SAP Menu Naming in IBM RPA

    When interacting with SAP through IBM RPA, selecting the "Anlegen..." option opens a subsequent menu with a different name. This behavior doesn't align with our standard, where subsequent levels should retain the name of the triggering option. So ...
    almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Enhanced Handling of Custom Toolbar Buttons in IBM RPA for SAP

    IBM RPA’s current method of interacting with SAP toolbar buttons using toolbar IDs (e.g., Toolbar(0)) causes issues with custom buttons, such as freezing the SAP application when interacting with the second custom button. This is not a defect but ...
    almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Publish/ Unpublish Status overview of maps

    Status of the blueprints within a workspace. Example : Total Blueprints - 10, Published - 7, Unpublished - 3. Provide list of maps which are published and unpublished in the BWL.
    almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    Enable cloud/Container ODM users to directly access the full set of sample projects—identical to those available for on-prem local installations—within Rule Designer or via a dedicated, downloadable package.

    This is useful because it allows cloud and container-based ODM customers to access essential training and reference materials without installing a full ODM server. Developers, technical teams, and new users would benefit by reducing setup complexi...
    8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Functionality already exists

    Text-Based Process Catalogue (PDF Export of Space)

    In Blueworks, you can create a PDF of a single Process Blueprint for printing, or you can export an entire Space (including its Subspaces) into Excel. I would like to suggest a feature for exporting a Space, along with all its Subspaces, into a si...
    over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

    IBM BlueworsLive API to provide the users with only subspaces directly linked to the a parent subspaces

    Currently, IBM BlueworksLive Spaces API can only provide two alternatives for the user: 1- Include all subspaces. 2- Do not include the subspaces. Sometimes users just want to retrieve the subspaces directly linked to the parent spaces. This would...
    over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

    Instance dates in PFS Portal

    If you want to migrate Saved Searches from BAW to PFS and the SS uses date fields from instance, you cannot migrate the saved searches. Some of the fields that are usable out of the box in BAW saved searches are not usable as is in PFS saved searc...
    over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

    Allow one script to be downloaded by user in the Tenant

    Currently, User can download all scripts in the Tenant, but not one individually. Is necessary to allow one selected script to be downloaded. For example, on the Scripts->Details screen, in the options list (3 dots), add "Download"
    about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

    Support Custom Secrets in CP4BA & FNCM Standalone

    Allowing the mapping of custom secrets into workloads similar to custom_configmaps would better secure sensitive values mapped into deployed instances. Secrets are by default more restricted with default RBAC roles, and there are many offerings to...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

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