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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...

All ideas

When opening the dashboard list via the Workplace app switcher, users cannot search, scroll, or view all available dashboards. Only a fixed, truncated list is shown with no indication that more exist.

When accessing the list of available dashboards via the app switcher (grid icon) in Workplace, it is not possible to search for a dashboard by name, nor to scroll through or confirm the full list of available dashboards. Only a limited, fixed numb...
26 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Add ability to change pod timezone for Business Automation Studio similar to what is possible for Workflow Runtime

The Workflow Runtime pod allows a user to set the Timezone for the pod:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0.1?topic=parameters-business-automation-workflow-runtime-workstream-servicesenvironment_config.timezone Timezone of...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Implement new optional parameter to customize the schema name for BAMOE data cleanup tool

Currently, by design, BAMOE data cleanup tool requires the JDBC URL and User name to establish connection to data-audit,data-index database tables and the database activity is run under the schema of the connected user. This is not flexible, as Da...
27 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.4.x 0 Planned for future release

Moving the endpoint configuration from appsettings.json to the Task Mining Agent application

During the installation of the Task Mining Agent, the endpoint must be specified upfront and can be modified only via the appsettings.json file. In a corporate environment, editing this file is restricted to users with Windows administrator privil...
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Support for Service Mesh/ISTIO on OpenShift for CP4BA

Support for Service Mesh in CP4BA would be very helpful in enterprise installations. ISTIO is very popular and often this is a required by our clients. currently CP4BA does not support Service Mesh. This is helpful for: - mTLS (Mutual Transport La...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Support for 32-bit Task Mining client

This enhancement request is to support 32-bit Task Mining client on Windows for the future.
about 2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

NMO should support new MS Office

NMO is a user experience well received by many business users of my client. Unfortunately, the new MS Office which Microsoft starts delivering does not support COM and VSTO add-ins. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/overview/off...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Support for Tracability, OpenTelemetry and Instrumentation to be able to use tools like Jaeger,Kiali

There is need for tracing global transaction/request ID that starts with the platform UI and gets propagated to the various layers/components of CP4BA so that one can follow the transaction. Our clients are using OpenShift Service Mesh ( Istio ) a...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Not under consideration

Configure Blueworks Live Logout URL when using IBMid authentication

Currently IBMid does not support logout URL For IBMid Enterprise Federation (SAML SSO), IBMid does not currently support SAML Single Logout (SLO) with customer Identity Providers such as Entra ID, Okta, PingFederate, ADFS, or ForgeRock. Logging ou...
about 2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review

Workflow layout Formatting.

Before BAMOE V9.X, we used Business Central feature of RHPAM to design the workflows. Now when we try to import the BPMN2 files that were developed using RHPAM into VSCode with BAMOE V9.X extenstion, the layout of the workflows is not being in the...
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Planned for future release