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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

All ideas

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Check status that are "Running" or "Cancelling"

If there are any problems with the communication between the client and the Server, you may have problems when a bot is running or canceling an instance of a process. The bot will get stuck with these statuses and will not be changed. A good idea ...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Is a defect

Request to get progress information of background execution

I would like to have progress information and result reports for processes executed in the background, such as deleting branches in ODM v9.
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

New user name (LSW_USR_XREF.USER_NAME) should be updated if re-created regardless of upper and lower case changes.

BAW manages user as case insensitive. So if re-creating user again with different case(ex. old='TESTUSER', new='testuser'), BAW treats new lowercase user as the same user as old uppercase user. We understand that this is working as designed, and n...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow ODM sample server to run with OUT Admin rights

In ODM 8.10.0 and all previous versions, admin rights were not required to run Rule Designer or to start/stop the sample server. During Fannie Mae's testing of ODM 8.10.5.1 and ODM 8.11.1, they noticed admin rights are required to start/stop the s...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Not under consideration

Unattended Bot Scheduler is unreliable​, and should work without failures showing clear logging to increase confidence

The scheduler is not reliable. It uses an asynchronous process. As a result, we need to wait until the "trigger event" to know if it worked or not. Because it is asynchronous, we have no confirmation of any error when scheduling an unattended bot....
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Wrap Text for Metadata

For Text Metadata fields, having the boxes wrap text would allow for a smoother user experience.
4 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Support of Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Systems to run against Read Only RDBMS and File Storage

Typically on premise systems have either a Production/Disaster Recovery or Production/Bunker/Disaster Recovery live / production system deployment model. In this model, if changes (upgrades, patches, JVM arguments & configs, web container patc...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Password Expiring email prompt

Currently a BWL User is prompted only 2 days prior to Password expiring. In my case I received the email around midnight on a friday evening. I had the weekend off + 2 working days following. When I returned to work on Wednesday, the system prompt...
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Provide full support for Okta as Identity and Access Manager Provider

Many customers are or will be using Okta as their cloud IAM provider and CP4BA should provide full support for this IAM provider.
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3

Update IBM RPA credentials through script

Currently the only way to update credentials is through the web browser in the Tenant level. Tokens (which expire) needs, sometimes, to be entered as a parameter for requests in APIs that IBM RPA consume and since they are dynamic. Sometimes it's ...
12 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration