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

    Change the SQL Server user password after RPA installation

    Change the product so that you can change the SQL Server user password after installing RPA.
    about 6 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 0 Functionality already exists

    Global session timeout across all CP4BA components

    Session timeout has to be configured in each CP4BA components but this must be done individually with the risk of having inconsistent session durations. It should be possible to configure a global session duration at the operator level to ensure t...
    over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Not under consideration

    Change the icon of the deactivated schedules on Projects

    For now the strip icon is too thin and it's almost imperceptible when the schedule is activated or not. To improve visualization, this strip could be enlarged and this would resolve this issue or change the color of the deactivated to red instead ...
    over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Log a Xpath of impacted transformation files

    At the moment both BPM and BAW logs only impact transaction file (xsl or custom xsl ) but that is very challenging and time-consuming task to narrow down a root cause, so it would be great if new feature can be added to log failure xpath and impac...
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

    Allow to connect Integration Designer to Workflow sever for UTE

    As current Integration Designer 23.02 has 2 related vulnerabilities and client systems are not allowing to install complete IID UTE version due to security restriction, it would be helpful if IID allows to connect remote Runtime BAW (workflow server)
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

    IBM RPA API enhancement to Bots-related API commands

    We suggest the creation of an endpoint which retrieves the last log messages via API, the bot status, start date, end date and so on. This can enable users to have more control over the bots and create custom flows controlled via API calls.
    over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Add support for consuming REST service with INT64 field

    currently when consuming a REST service if it contains an INT64 field. the field cannot be used according to the following documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/19.x?topic=service-limitations-invoking-rest We ask to enalbe consuming a RES...
    almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

    Allow Knowledge Base V2 to be started with no initial Excel upload

    In current state the user has to download sample kb from documentation, cleanse it, then reupload it to get a fresh start. This should be automatic
    almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Client is request for MFA support for IBM RPA application

    Client is requesting to enhance the security of the IBM RPA application, and is requesting the implementation of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) support to continue using the RPA product. This feature will provide an additional layer of security...
    about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

    Process Variants

    Some process variants are acceptable variants (e.g. across countries, brands, severity or scale of spending or risk etc...) which may change how and by whom a process is executed. To circumvent this, I would have to duplicate the current process w...
    about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

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