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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 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...
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

All ideas

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Allow scheduling of Rule runner threads

There may be times when you want certain tasks to only run during certain times - maybe off hours. It would be nice to either be able to configure threads to be enabled/disabled for set times instead of manually having to enable and disable. An ex...
5 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Enhance general product ecosystem - extensibility

An AA metabots-like approach would provide more flexibility and extensibility to the product.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Future consideration

CP4BA support for ROSA HCP

In Mapfre we have the possibility to deploy CP4BA in ROSA, but it would be more convenient for the client to use ROSA HCP, so we are asking to provide official support for ROSA HCP in CP4BA.

IBM Navigator / Edit Service OIDC Support

Today we are using Edit Service with SAML on Weblogic. We are in the transition to CP4BA and it is the company's rule to implement SSO with OIDC. We are requesting to enhance the Navigator Edit Service to support OIDC for SSO.
2 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Future consideration

Move all functionality that requires modification of the product .war files (like secured htds & dynamic domains) into the product itself

With installation and management of the product needing more and more to be 100% automated, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain one-off instances of RES & Decision Center when the DecisionCenter.war and DecisionService.war files have...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Not under consideration

Admin should be able to delete a process and delete a queue as well.

Admin should be able to delete a process (not a process instance) from the orchestrator and delete a queue as well.  the ability to delete unused queues should be enabled, as well.
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

UI_Preferred_Logon prohibits to add users or groups to the ZEN administration

Our endusers would like to be brought directly to navigator after having selected the URL in their brwosers. We are using OICD and this works great. Because we want to supress the dialog where you could select the authentication methods we have co...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

AWS S3 Bucket with Object Lock and in Compliance Mode connected as a Fixed Content Device Storage to CPE, map CPE Indefinite Retention to AWS S3 Legal Hold Flag

Currently indefinite is not allowed or supported from CPE to AWS S3, the CPE value of 9999-12-20 12AM UTC is sent to S3 and S3 complains that the date value is not allowed as S3 has a maximum value of 100 years in the future for retention date. In...
25 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

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.
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Modify Deployment Configuration on Closed Release

Allow deployment configuration files to be modified in a closed release so that we can deploy to other environments that may not have been selected in the original deployment configuration. As of today, we have to create a new release to do this,...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration