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

    Enable fetching of oidc access_token from zen/foundational services to use for authenticating downstream services.

    It is useful because it would enable us to authentienticate downstream services (BAW external services) with access_token generated from OIDC flow (and ideally compatible with this: Invoking CP4BA APIs using custom authentication tokens). From BAW...
    7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Need a cron job for cleaning up old cache directories

    Today, ICN uses a PVC named icn-vw-cachestore to storage cached files. Each pod, when it comes up, creates a subdirectory named after itself for its own cached files. If the pods gets bounced for any reason, the pod that replaces it will create it...
    about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Under review

    Task mining - allowed applications and webpages (the ability to create and save a set)

    When adding applications and websites (allowed list), there should be an option to save a given set of applications and websites (e.g., Set 1 = Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint). This solution is very important because with a larger number of user...
    7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2 Functionality already exists

    Process mining - additional suggestions (guidelines) for errors

    Adding hints to help resolve a given error Adding, in the form of a comment or an additional box, information on how to solve the error (e.g. No such column "eventlog.endtime_ts"), such as providing the exact path to the tab, step or file where yo...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

    Deleted Archived branches with an API

    We have a large amount of branches and we need to do a cleanup. The only way currently to do that seems to be by following documented manual steps in Workflow Center. We'd like to be able to do this by API, this would be a huge help and reduce tim...
    2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    DocuSign/IBM Integration: Use document name as subject line

    When sending a document from the DMS via DocuSign, the predefined text "Complete with docusing:" appears in the subject line, but the document name is not filled in (see png-file #2). In our opinion, this is an error, as we have observed that when...
    6 months ago in Content Navigator 1 Needs more information

    To remove character restriction in Text to Blueprint (with AI)

    IBM recently introduced the AI-powered Text-to-Blueprint capability in Blueworks Live, which is proving highly effective in converting textual process descriptions into process blueprints. However, the current input limitation of 5,000 characters ...
    3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1

    Native validation of third-party IdP tokens for system-to-system (no-user) calls to CP4BA/BAW REST APIs using OAuth client_credentials

    Problem / gap: CP4BA IAM (Zen) currently expects an IdP -> IAM -> Zen token exchange and requires a valid AD/directory user in the token subject before it will authorise a call. It cannot natively validate arbitrary external (third-party) Id...
    3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

    Ability to add a Comment to the Rule Artifact in the "DO" of a Query

    Currently we can add Documentation to Rule Artifacts in the DO part of a Query. But we cannot add comment to that artifact.However this comment section is more adapted to audit than the documentation.
    4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

    Support for editing Office 365 tools directory online for self managed ECM environments

    Many customer subscribes to Office365 as SaaS. They edit and store powerpoint or excel online without download the office tool on their Laptop. This also enables collaborative editing / co-authoring. For clients running ICN in self-managed environ...
    about 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

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