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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).


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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

Ability to migrate Parameters from one Tenant to another

When you're using two or more Tenants as a pipeline (i.e. One Tenant for Development, another for Production, etc), it's hard to migrate some objects from one Tenant to another, like Scripts, Parameters, etc. The idea is to have some feature to be...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

To increase space export limit

In BWL we have an option to export the space in the single excel file, but the current limit set is up to 3000 artefacts. We understand that this limit has been set post testing to ensure that running such reports would not impact the system perfo...
about 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Looking to test/simulate multiple decision services

we need capability to test/simulate multiple decision services in decision center.
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Looking to create folders in TEST tab under business console

Currently, we don't have option to create user specific folders for testing in test tab decision center for decision services.
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

HTTP Error Page Customization for IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) on OpenShift

We are currently running IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) on OpenShift, with the workflow-server component (based on WebSphere ND) exposed externally via routes. During internal security assessments (pentesting), our security team at ...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

SSL Connection Between Content Collector for Email and Content Manager V8.7

As of today IBM Content Collector is not able to establish HTTPS/SSL secured connections to a Content Manager V8.7 repository. Functions affected are archiving, viewing & restore, search as well as full text indexing.
10 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Planned for future release

Process App for SAP O2C (Order to Cash)

We already provide rocess App for SAP P2P(Procure to Pay)https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/process-mining/1.14.1?topic=apps-using-process-app-sap-procure-pay Can we also have it for O2C?
over 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1

Enhance error messages for debugging

Enhance error messages to contain actual rule that was fired that caused error (Decision table name and row/column if possible). Debugging errors that occur during rule execution is difficult and time consuming. Messages returned from execution an...
almost 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Content Engine Bulk Import (CEBI) needs the ability to escape a character

The default delimiter in CEBI is a comma. When attempting to import a text string that contains a comma, the batch fails
10 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Entry template rendering in BAW 23.0.2 and ICN 3.0.15 (on-prem)

Additional properties that are of type ‘object’, are being displayed even though they’re not part of a layout. It would be easier to have the feature to toggle this on / off on the fly as opposed to making changes to the target class.
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration