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:

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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,

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  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...
Share feedback 7
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
Share feedback 0

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Customer wants to be able to sign documents from Content Naviagtor

Currently Davita has to use DocuSign for all signatures and every signature has a cost. If there was a way to include a signature option with a custom plugin or with Daeja, this could save the customer having to pay for every signature.
9 months ago in Content Navigator 1 Functionality already exists

Enable wTM service to process all request headers in lower case

This request is to enable wTM API services to comply to the networking standards (RFC 2616 Sec 4.2 and RFC 7230 Sec 3.2) which state that HTTP headers are case insensitive. This issue was identified during our testing with IBM Cloud Load Balancer....
over 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

I would like for CP4BA routes to be able to use OpenShift platform certificates instead of requiring custom certificates with keys

In my environment, the platform team are allowed to use long duration certificates, and have configured one for the OpenShift platform certificate and AWS load balancer used by our Cloud Pak for Business Automation install. We need to use custom c...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 6 Planned for future release

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

Emergency exit for a running bot

Currently, RPA is not offering any way to abort a bot when it's running if a user does not have admin rights to kill the running process. Even if the user has such admin rights, it's not recommended to use this method as it will remain unclear whi...
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

Scrolling within a dialog

If a bot needs user input, a message dialog will usually be used allowing the user to enter the required information. However, it's not possible to scroll up and down within such a dialog. Especially, when providing more than just one row or one s...
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Allow to deploy a fix of a case with business automation workflows

Use the branches to create a fix deployable to production environment isn't possible when the BA workflow includes the case features. Make possible this feature again, even if the case feature part as to be manually managed. It's penalizing for in...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

To be able to tag other Blueworks users when you add a comment to a process diagram.

All users would benefit from being informed that there is a comment for their attention, because presently the comments are not always picked up by the required users immediately. This could work by allowing the commentator to tag the required Blu...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 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

The ability to bulk load attributes when you have over 1000 workflows -vs- one at a time

Client has over 1000 models and if they need any bulk updating it becomes very. manual - from a conversation with the client to give context - Tom and Poojitha discuss bulk import request - FURTHER CLARIFICATIONS-20240916_151217-Meeting Recording....
about 2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review

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