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...
Share feedback 8
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
Share feedback 0

All ideas

    Ability to UPDATE multiple glossary values without a Rate limit restriction

    Currently, there is a rate limit documented here. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/blueworks-live?topic=authoring-glossary-valuescategory This restriction is preventing the proper maintenance of glossary values when UPDATES are needed to different cate...
    9 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Needs more information

    CP4BA should allow script-free updates (IFIX) to allow for automation using ArgoCD e.a.

    We manage environments using ArgoCD in order to automate steps to reduce effort and risk of updates. Until CP4BA 22.0.2 , IFIX installations were done by manually applying YAML files, which was easily ported into GitOps automation for ArtgoCD.In C...
    9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Enable native support for arrays of arrays (nested arrays) within IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) Business Objects.

    This enhancement would allow BAW's JSON Data Handler to directly process and bind JSON arrays containing other arrays (e.g., "productList": [ [ {...}, {...} ], [ {...} ] ]) to corresponding Business Object structures. It is useful because it elimi...
    9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Enhancements in Infinity Loop Detection Properties for batch runs or schedules

    Existing Loop Detection Property : <service-engine> <loop-detection-duration merge="replace">240</loop-detection-duration> <loop-detection-exception merge="replace">true</loop-detection-exception> </service-engine&...
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    Eclipse 2020.06 contains vulnerabilities so ODM v8.11 should be compatible with the most recent version 2024-03

    My organization's information Security area prevents us from downloading vulnerable software from the various marketplaces for IDEs. This includes the Eclipse marketplace or eclipse.org. Because of this, our rule application developers are not abl...
    about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

    Case Client task in basket reloading and resetting to top

    Current functionality works that you always end up in the first page after a case closure/completion, but not in the page from which specific case was opened. It would be much better that after case closure you would end up in the same page from w...
    over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

    Reuse Attachements

    When adding attachments to an Activity box, the attachment is stored in File Management. If someone wants to associate that same attachment to another Activity box then they must upload and reattach the same document again. Instead, what should ha...
    almost 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    Support for CAC (Common Access Card)/smart card authentication in RPA bots.

    Looks like currently this is not supported. In most secure Govt/DoD (Dept of Defense - US) platforms, CAC authentication is required. For scenarios where we have to browse and extract content from CAC-authentication enabled websites, this feature ...
    over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Opening disposal schedule takes too long and crashes

    When loading disposal schedules in the IER desktop UI the load itself can take a long time if there are a larger number of folders associated with the schedule. In the logs it can be seen that loading the schedule initiates the loading of properti...
    over 2 years ago in Enterprise Records 1 Not under consideration

    Adding Activity Number for excel space export on problems tab

    I am requesting that Activity Milestone and Stakeholder, or Activity Number appear in the excel tab for Problems when you export a space. I am requesting this so that I can uniquely identify which activities are associated with specific problems. ...
    over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

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