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 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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All ideas

    Saved search count performance optimization

    Optimize saved searches with business data variables When ever we create a new variable we need to drop the pivot tables and re run the schema generator tool to reproduce the table and load the data .I am looking for permanent solution that help u...
    almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    We need support of complex type WSDL in WebPD

    The XSD type schema included in the WSDL uses the construct of derived complex objects in many places. It builds a complex type hierarchy where both the base types and the derived types are used in parallel.As per ticket TS002481263BPM Standard ha...
    almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

    Send notification email when task status changes to at risk or overvue

    This is using processApps. Only when a new task is created do users receive an email. However we would like the option to also receive emails when a task changes status to at risk and overdue. This allows us to use the processApp feature to schedu...
    almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    Cancel changes in Workflow Center Solutions

    Currently, when opening an existing solution in Workflow Center, there is no option to exit out of the solution to release it, or to cancel any changes (on purpose or inadvertent) made by the developer that should not be saved or deployed. Just li...
    over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Make docker images available for Mac M1 chip

    A docker image for the Mac M1 chip would appease those developers who have a Mac M1.
    over 2 years ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Planned for future release

    Mapping list variable on error data

    TS002444983 Currently it is possible to map variable which is a list to "Error End Event" in "Service Flow". It is also possible to caught the error and to extract object from error object. However, when binding the list, a validation error: "The ...
    about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    set variable, substitute variable and not concatenate

    When you want to set a value for a variable, in the input of which variable you want to set the variable doesnt substitute the previous variable if it was. It should be a select and not an append.
    over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Functionality already exists

    Datacap Navigator verify client, vertical scrollbar batchtreeview should persist when marking a page for delete

    Currently in Datacap Navigator Verify, the batchtreeview returns to the top of the list, once a page is marked for deletion, when the page is very low in the list.
    over 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

    Improve Studio UI for multiple screens

    In Studio, when we drag 2nd script as new window, it doesn't provide panels like Toolbox, Variables, Output. Aim is to have multiple Studio windows on separate monitors. As we can run script only from beginning, we usually copy few lines from main...
    over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

    Rename the 'Subject' column of in-baskets to 'Activity'

    The Subject column name has always rather confusing. For legacy cases it should have been named Task and with BAW it should be Activity. (The value of Activity is obviously the process instance name, but since 'activity' is really the generic term...
    over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

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