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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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Make it possible to set TaskAtRiskDate

Our customer is using the TaskAtRiskDate to determine which tasks needs to get immediate attention.A task at risk date which is calculated with historical duration of other tasks is useless for them.This needs to be calculated by logic which can d...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Preview within Outlook NMO window

It would be nice to see a preview of the clicked e-mails in the Add-in window within Outlook (on the right side --> in another window below the folder structure). This is only needed for E-Mails.
10 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

BAW v23.02 version Process Admin console Health Management should revert back to old UI

BAW v23.02 version Process Admin console Health Management replace good UI with Swagger API tester UI, don't know the reason behind it. The old UI is much better in usability and feel. The Swagger UI doesn't look like product level quality and har...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Using API to delete uploaded CSV files

Client wants to use API to delete uploaded CSVs. Since we already have API /integration/csv/{projectKey}/upload for upload CSV files and we can manually delete chunks by using Manage -> data source -> trash button. Can we have an API to do t...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

ICC DB2TS Indexer logging improvements

Logfile Size and Number of Log Files: With the ICC DB2TS indexer it is not possible to configure the number of log files being written and the size of each log file. Currently only one trace file is being written with infinite size. In a high volu...
3 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Future consideration

Add missing features from Traditional BAW environment System Data toolkit in Cloud Pak for Business Automation

Several features or components available in Traditional BAW - System Data toolkit are removed from the Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) System Data toolkit. CP4BA "System Data" toolkit has only SQL integration components available and doe...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support for PFX Certificates in the HTTP Request Command

Currently, the HTTP Request command in IBM RPA does not support sending certificates, which prevents secure communication via mTLS. To address this limitation, we propose adding a feature that allows attaching PFX certificates directly in the HTTP...
6 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability of still using maintenance.admin after enabling SAML

Once you enable SAML, it's not possible to access Process Mining instance with maintenance.admin. This would be a good idea in case you have SAML configuration issues, because you'd still be able to access the product, without running through the ...
6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

BAW product DBUpgrade Scripts to support SSL enabled datasource

We are unable to establish connection to backend DB via SSL enabled datasource during DB upgrade script execution as a part of BAW version upgrade . It's a known limitation that upgrade tools connect to the database outside the AppServer context a...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Decision Table Precondition – Unused Variable Warning Flag Enhancement

If you have unused variables in an action rule it causes a warning and underlines the variable informing the developer of the issue. With a Decision Table if you have unused variables that are created in the preconditions tab they do not cause war...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration