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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).


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...
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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Enhance Case Client “Create Package” export to derive file extensions from MIME type

Environment Product: IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) Version: 21.0.x Platform: IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) Deployment: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) 4.16 Component: Case Client / Case Package expor...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

BAMOE Monitoring and Observability data

Hi Team, Currently BAMOE 9.2.1 doesn't provide any dashboard to view the BAMOE observability and monitoring data. It only provides a graphQL endpoints which we have to custom utilize for all the requirements. We need an interface/Dashboard for the...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Future consideration

Add OpenTelemetry support to runtimes

Please, add OpenTelemetry support to runtimes. OpenTelemetry is vendor neutral, industry-standard method of providing observability ( https://opentelemetry.io/docs/ )
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 1 Future consideration

Add support in BAMOE Canvas to connect to hosted Git providers like Gitea, local Gitlab, GitHub Enterprise, etc.

Customers tend to have inhouse git solutions not only public providers like SaaS bitbucket, gitlab and github and that creates the need for self-hsoted git providers.
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

Task Mining Agent to work with pop-ups

Currently, Task Mining supports modal recording but does not record browser dialogs (e.g., print preview). These dialogs are excluded because they cannot be linked to a URL and may display content outside the allowed website list, which is enforce...
2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

We want to be able to choose format for dates in exporting decision table to Excel.

in IBM ODM Decision Center 9.5, whenever we export a decision table to XLSX, dates are written in the format M/D/Y H:MM:SS AM/PM. Is there a possibility to change the format to Y-M-D HH:MM:SS. Example: Instead of 08/31/2025 03:00:00 PM, we would l...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Need a mechanism in BAMOE to allow dynamic rule updates

Need a mechanism in BAMOE to allow dynamic rule updates so that business users can modify existing rules (e.g., add new conditions or fields) without going through the full redevelopment and redeployment lifecycle. Expecting to have this via custo...
2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Future consideration

Hybrid Solution Fixed Content Storage (Retention) with Advanced Storage Area (Staging)

Enhance fixed content device storage to utilize advanced storage areas for staging vs a localized path / file storage location as currently designed. This would utilize the streaming aspects of advanced storage, eliminating local operating system ...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Moving the endpoint configuration from appsettings.json to the Task Mining Agent application

During the installation of the Task Mining Agent, the endpoint must be specified upfront and can be modified only via the appsettings.json file. In a corporate environment, editing this file is restricted to users with Windows administrator privil...
3 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Allow IBM ODM Rule Designer to configure and use multiple OIDC scopes (per provider) for Entra ID/Azure AD authentication

When using IBM ODM Rule Designer with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) via OIDC, Rule Designer currently allows only a single scope to be configured through the JVM parameter: -Dcom.ibm.rules.studio.oidc.synchro.scopes=xxx/.default This works only if...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration