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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).


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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

Ability to update external web service through Web PD

Interamerican would like to be able to update External Services created from YAML files from WebPD. Currently, there is no update capability of external services discovered from YAML files. In order to be able to update an external service, you ha...
about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

ODM Integration with Monitoring Solutions to see logs

We see that ODM has no integration with any of the Monitoring tools (Splunk, App Dynamics, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.). Although we have must-gather script to see logs it is not the best way to provide kubectl access to all users (as Mustgather scr...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

Allow a parameter to the Bulk Instance Details REST API method to only bring back the executionTree

We have situations where we need to move the token. The only place to get the token ids (that we have found) is the Bulk Instance Details method in the REST API. It brings back everything. We would like to have an option for the parts parameter to...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

IBM Filenet - product install is non-compliant to OpenSCAP

Dutch Tax uses RedHat Linux in combination with FileNet. Our Linux team keeps the environment continuously up-to-date to stay in RedHat support. However, this regularly causes problems with the rollout of our FileNet software. Our silent install s...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Request for decimals to be displayed with trailing decimal value in Workplace / Process Portal

The main issue is that in the Process Portal in the Table View when user has some columns which are decimals, then the values which are round (e.g. 100, 1000, 80, etc.) are display without trailing decimal value, while the ones which have trailing...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Pdf Option For Process Export API

For the API call …/bwl/blueprints/{blueprint-id}/export… add the option of PDF for parameter Format.
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

User name as well as user ID to be displayed when selecting to Modify Multiple tasks.

It appears there are two different code paths for modifying the task for one and multiple,. User will like the experience to be the same as the identification by name as well is ID makes it easier to make the selections.
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Allow Standalone Installation of BAI on AKS or EKS (CNCF) similar to BAW and FNCM.

Organizations are looking to install BAI without the need of CloudPak or OpenShift to avoid additional overhead and licensing costs. It will be nice to have BAI installation on CNCF Kubernetes along with BAW and FNCM.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

How to automatically retrieve team/user/group permissions and authority that are defined individually for each Process App as a list in a batch.

Right now, the configuration is visually checked for each Process App (snapshot) from Designer, which makes it difficult to make simple comparisons and prone to errors.For example, we would like a way to automatically extract settings and permissi...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

GITLAB integration

Could we please have integration set withup between ODM and gitlab so that we can manage the ODM assets from Git. Seem this is currently available in Automation Decision Services - can this please be extended to ODM as well.
almost 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration