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 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
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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...
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Fix Process Designer to filter out control characters which cause issues in Process Center

If a developer somehow enters a hidden control character, Process Designer accepts it and stores it in the underlying XML for the process model. However, if such a control character is present, Process Center cannot promote the Process Application...
about 9 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Add support for .heic formatted files to the Navigator viewer

We have users who are storing photos from their IOS devices in their native format which is: image/heic, image/heif Can the virtual viewer support that format? They do open in Windows Photo Viewer.
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Add DayOfTheWeek to the DateTime properties

This idea is to add a way for IBM RPA to provide the day of the week based on a data or datetime variable. Currently the properties for the datetime variable in IBM RPA give you: Hour, Minute, Second, Milliesecond, TimeOfDay, Year. Having DayOfWee...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

The rule extend model should support more type

One customer needs to add more info for the rules，and use customized rule property.One requirement is need to support long text like area support ,but default is only text type.Another I know it support hierarchy type,but it not support mutiple se...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Add a guardrail feature in CP4BA to avoid Elastic Mapping Explosion or alert them upon reaching a certain threshold

Elastic Search has a known issue called "Mapping Explosion" (More about it here: https://www.elastic.co/blog/3-ways-to-prevent-mapping-explosion-in-elasticsearch), the issue is CP4BA by default is configured to use 1000 fields in Elastic and when ...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

Allow to get Data Row as collection

We need a simple solution to "export" a row as a collection that can later be used elsewhere. It is not possible to do this currently without knowing every column's name beforehand. It would be great if the output was of Data Row type that could h...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

want the simultaneously windows scrolling down function back (when comparing rule differences)

The old version 8.7.1 DC one can moves Windows on both sides automatically when comparing rule differences, but the new version 8.11.0 DC will only move one side. You have to manually scroll down two windows to the same position on both sides when...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Need improvement in assignment's behavior of "last user in lane" when activity pass through sub or linked process.

Please, bring back the task to last user in lane when using subprocess or linked process A PMR regarding this issue has been submitted by Orange. This PMR as of today is closed, with the indication that the requirement should be submitted as RFE (...
over 11 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

enable multiple decision services to be synchronized at once

its easy when we have multiple decision services working on and need to sync with DC .i have to rightclick and synchonize multiple no of times.this can be avoided as an improvement
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Need an API to merge a single element directly from one branch to another without loading differences

Today to merge object from main to release branch, first we retrieve merge operations and then invoke apply merge for the required differences. In this approach, getting merge operations is expensive. We want a single API where we can pass the ele...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

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