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).


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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,

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  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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CMOD - Parameter to turn on the Strict Carriage Control Validation in AFP Documents

Update - 8/13/2025 See attached email Related ticket https://w3.ibm.com/tools/caseviewer/case/TS019780232 Original description Since CMOD v10.5, stricter validation for carriage control (CC) on AFP documents has been introduced. For example, blank...
11 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) Not under consideration

Configurable option for Datacap Application Deployment Tool (DCDexployment.exe) to stop the Taskmaster during deployment

As per below documentation, End-to-end remote deployment on Datacap Taskmaster Server, Rulerunner, and Datacap Web Services web servers includes starting and stopping the servers. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/datacap/9.1.9?topic=administering-datac...
over 1 year ago in Datacap Not under consideration

Create a new status to differentiate between a bot that starts and fail, and a bot that fails to start

When a bot fails, the Web Client shows the status as "failed", but thats the same message for then bot starts and fails after it. The reason this is needed is that it's two completly different types of investigations. When a bot fails to start, th...
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Not under consideration

Allow different options for downloading scripts

When selecting the “download scripts” button in the Tenant, an interface should open allowing you to choose parameters to filter the scripts. Ex: -Downloading all scripts (as it is today); -Download only scripts in production; -Download only the l...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Not under consideration

Option to filter out or hide items in the merge panel result that are of the same contents and only have version number differences.

Merging activity across releases in Decision Center with Governance Framework results in many differences being shown on unchanged items – due to version number differences. We would like to have option to filter out or hide items in the merge pan...
almost 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Expanding the Number of Snapshots and Task Instances in BAW in CP4BA

Currently, in Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA), the BAW component has a default snapshot limit of 110 and an instance limit of 1,800,000. This value is configurable and can be increased manually, but when these modifications are made, per...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

Integração com Google Planilhas

Google Planilhas tem quando certa relevância no mercado, nossa empresa por exemplo não usa mais o Microsoft Excel. Hoje as automações com Google Planilhas precisam ser feitas através da conversão do arquivo .gsheet para .xlsx, funciona até certo p...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Not under consideration

Federated Process portal task list refresh on events

Currently, the federated tasks list for work or any saved search is refreshed periodically (default: 60 seconds). This behavior is causing confusion for customers, as they are unsure whether their tasks are being completed until they manually refr...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

hCaptcha command

Several websites are migrating from recaptcha to hcaptcha and we don't have a command that supports this feature.
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Not under consideration

Allow ODM sample server to run with OUT Admin rights

In ODM 8.10.0 and all previous versions, admin rights were not required to run Rule Designer or to start/stop the sample server. During Fannie Mae's testing of ODM 8.10.5.1 and ODM 8.11.1, they noticed admin rights are required to start/stop the s...
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

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