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

    Task mining - task classification - recording view update

    Task mining - task classification - recording view update After enabling the Timestamp visibility option, you can see that the order does not fully correspond to the actual process flow (with the correct chronology) In each case, the earliest acti...
    9 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Is a defect

    Prioritization of machines/processes

    Prioritizing machines/processes to avoid the need for manual rescheduling of executions.
    4 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Submitted

    The option "Require users to save new documents and folders in folders" -> disallow users adding folders to root for P8 ObjectStores

    CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY:In the General tab of the ICN desktop configuration, there is the following option:"Require users to save new documents and folders in a folder" The tooltip for which states:"Select this option if you want to require users to...
    5 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Under review

    Enable “hot reload” of SAP certificates without restarting ICCSAP

    Currently, when a SAP certificate is renewed, ICCSAP must be restarted to load the new certificate. This means customers need to plan a maintenance window and ensure the certificate is updated before the old one expires. To reduce this dependency,...
    5 months ago in Content Collector for SAP 1 Planned for future release

    Add command to switch iframes for web automations with IBM RPA

    Many webpages and especially ones which are being used to download various reports based on filters etc, but in general more robust pages, now usually include more then 1,2 iframes. It would be 100% flexibility and efficiency improvement if there ...
    over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

    Effective management of simulation Jobs ( viz identifying #simulations running at any time)

    Customer is looking for a feature to - Identify the number of simulation’s running and their status (e.g. “RUNNING”) in DC Runner at any point in time. - To manage the simulation batch jobs effectively e.g. queuing or rejecting the simulation requ...
    12 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

    Use of OpenAPI Properties allOf, oneOf, anyOf

    Business Case need use of the allOf, oneOf, anyOf provided from Rest OpenAPI
    about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    Support automatic Process SVG generation during Maven builds

    Provide a supported way to generate BPMN Process SVG files during the Maven build, without requiring Visual Studio Code or manual steps. Currently, SVG files can only be generated through the BAMOE VS Code editor, making it difficult to automate C...
    about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.4.x 0 Needs more information

    FileNet and Content Cortex container deployments should create Gateway API ingress on CNCF Kubernetes cluster

    Currently for FileNet container deployments on CNCF Kubernetes clusters, the FileNet Operator can create the Ingress Nginx configuration for the FileNet endpoints in the Kubernetes cluster. However, Ingress Nginx has been retired as of March 2026 ...
    about 1 month ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Configurable ressources for init-folder-readonlyfs container

    We are using the official helm charts from https://github.com/IBM/charts/tree/master/repo/ibm-helmCurrently I am using: ibm-odm-prod-25.1.7.tgz Our multi tenant Openshift 4.18 cluster is totally relying on ressouce quotas for namespaces.For our OD...
    4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

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