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...
Share feedback 8
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
Share feedback 0

All ideas

    Add feature for exporting and importing favorites in ICN desktops

    Often customers wants to work in several desktops where same repositories are used with the same favorites which is not possible between different desktops. So waht about an exporting and importing feature for that? This would help our customers t...
    over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

    Ability to have multiple NAS mounts and use more than one PV/PVC on a CPE container for file storage

    We have multiple NAS mounts on one traditional WAS CPE server. We are in the process of upgrading to containers using the IBM FNCM Operator; however, there is a limitation to the CPE deployment where you can only have one PV/PVC assigned which mea...
    about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    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

    Enhance error notifications with detailed information and expand the administration page to allow downloading Process Mining logs directly from the GUI.

    Why is it useful? Currently, IBM Process Mining users often encounter generic error messages (e.g., "Generic Error") when issues arise during data uploads, process analysis, or monitor execution. These messages provide little insight into the root...
    12 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 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

    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

    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

    To extend the current indent guide line and/or to change font size in designer mode to increase the number of lines included.

    In complex automations developed in IBM Robotic Process Automation Designer, workflows often contain multiple nested conditions, loops, and exception-handling blocks that are currently displayed at the same visual level. This makes large scripts d...
    7 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

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