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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All ideas

    Allow the approver in the flow to take action on bulk of items

    The customer is using BAW for multiple tasks. About 300 articles are created every day and may existing articles are edited. The flow has many approvers and one of them being the taxation team. Articles created by every department will have a taxa...
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Bulk creation / edit of article - Each article triggers a flow

    Similar to transaction systesms (like bank), where they allow us to download a template, fill the template with details for multiple transactions and upload in one go. This ends up triggering multiple transactions. The customer is using BAW for pr...
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    add 'Current Date' within saved search filter

    In both Process Portal saved searches and Workplace reusable searches, the current 'Due Date' filter only supports a calendar-based selection, requiring users to choose a specific date. However, the client needs to have saved search that shows end...
    10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Adding comments to a recording

    As part of our analyses, we examine complex business processes characterized by a large number of variations and the occurrence of non-standard scenarios. Therefore, a key element of the analysis is the observations and comments of those directly ...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

    Provide an option to exclude unused rule flows during rule app archive generation. Currently system supports rule-level filtering through query parameters (e.g., status and tags), similar filtering capabilities are not extended to rule flows, leading to the inclusion of redundant artifacts in the archive.

    In the current application, certain rule flows are maintained in Decision Center exclusively for testing purposes, and there is a need to exclude these non-production flows during deployment to the Decision Server. While the platform currently sup...
    3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

    System Log Logging when making changes using ARSXML

    Hi, Certain types of changes with ARSXML (like Folder changes for example) are not logged and viewable in the OnDemand System Log like they are when actioned from the GUI. From the GUI a summary of the folder as it appeared before the change, as w...
    7 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

    Improved Expired Certificate Handling for IBM RPA

    When the IBM RPA certificate expires, the license will be deactivated with the message "Invalid Certificate". Note that this is different from license expiration, it's the certificate. After some research, we discovered that the certificate has a ...
    over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

    Filenet & Azure Blob storage integration

    As of now, FileNet and Azure Blob can be configured together only using shared key. However, due to known risks and issues shared key access is disabled in some organizations. Alternative way of making this connection (e.g. using Azure Active Dire...
    about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 3 Under review

    Ability to migrate dynamic teams from one snapshot to another

    The migration of process instances and tasks will not transfer teams or manager teams to a new snapshot context when a team filter service is used. The teams associated with a task that utilizes a team filter service will block the deletion of the...
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Ability to organise BC queries in folder

    Currently queries are organised in BC in a flat structure. Without any level of hierarchies, it is cumbersome to search the queries especially when the number of queries exceed a few hundreds. Queries are also essential to defining decision operat...
    over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Future consideration

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