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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

Support for 32-bit Task Mining client

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

Multiple documents via Docusign in Content Navigator

Select multiple documents to send via Docusign for signature in Content Navigator - Extension product: Docusign Plugin Users would find it helpful, to combine multiple documents (regarding one matter i. e. annual report or contract negotiations) i...
7 months ago in Content Navigator 1 Needs more information

Add Support for TreeModel PMML Models created in SPSS Modeller into ADS

Currently ADS only supports the import of PMML Model ScoreCard and RuleSet definitions. SPSS Modeller in Cloud Pak for Data often creates TreeModel PMML definition files that contain decision table logic that could be mapped to an ADS decision tab...
about 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Support Export and Import of Individual Artifacts in BAW

IBM BAW currently provides export/import capabilities at the Process Application and Toolkit level. However, there are many situations where developers only need to share or move a single artifact, such as: Client-Side Human Service (CSHS) Service...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

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...
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review

Task mining - possibility of entering the address into the local path on the computer

Task mining - possibility of entering the address into the local path on the computer There should be an ability to insert the address into the local path on the computer, with the ability to open it in a browser other than URL
11 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

CP4BA: Provide the capability to customize the storage allocation for Opensearch PVCs

The full‑text search feature requires the OpenSearch component to be deployed. However, there is no option to customize the OpenSearch PVC sizes. By default, OpenSearch reserves 200 GB of persistent storage, even though the actual storage consumpt...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Integrate ODM RuleDesigner with IntelliJ and VS Code

Most organizations today have standardized on IntelliJ IDEA and VS Code for development, along with proprietary and supported extensions, rather than Eclipse. Using IntelliJ or VS Code would also make it easier to fully leverage Copilot features—s...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Enable automatic opening of the next user task within the same process instance in Case Client / Navigator, so that users can continue working without returning to the in-basket and manually claiming the next task.

In Business Automation Workflow, when a user completes a task in Case Client (Navigator), they are redirected back to the in-basket and must manually locate and claim the next task, even when that task belongs to the same process instance and is i...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration