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

    Separate permissions for users to create Process Blueprints, and Journey Models

    We have two separate taxonomies in Blueworks - one for Journey models, and one for process models. Currently "Process" users with Editor licenses can create Journey models in the Process taxonomy and conversely "Journey" users can create Process m...
    about 2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

    Alternative way for solving CVE-2023-50959 in BAW.

    In the context of CVE-2023-50959 which is solved by KI DT247523, we have a complex situation that cannot be solved with the two ECM services : ECM Document Authorization Service ECM Query Authorization Service Our security scan suggested to avoid ...
    4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Option to reset the service result cache in BAW Process Admin Console

    In Process Admin Console (under 'Manage Caches') interface, there is currently no option to perform flush/reset operation for Service Result Cache in scenarios where some data change happens (for eg - when users sometimes modify the catalogs which...
    almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

    Enable BAW’s JSON parser to correctly interpret `0E+0` (scientific notation for zero) in external REST service responses.

    When invoking REST services via OpenAPI, BAW fails to parse response fields that return the value `0E+0`. The parser attempts to coerce it into a Long (integer), which Java does not accept in scientific notation, leading to a `NumberFormatExceptio...
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

    Ability to pre populate query parameter from an external datasource

    The customer's business users are heavy users of the the simulation feature. They have simulation configuration with query parameters which accept values for filtering the values of the simulation scenarios. There are times when the business users...
    8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    IBM Process Mining Simulation with Parallelism

    Currently, Parallelism is not supported for the simulation engine in IBM Process Mining. The customer wants it included in IBM Process Mining to analyze such type of processes.
    over 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release

    Enhance the blueprint export API, so that API can return result directly in PDF format and there is no need for docx-pdf conversion

    Currently our business is facing issues with regards to a Formatting change done in IBM which resulted in broken data with their application.
    over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

    Provide Out of Box Customization Option for Email Template(from Portal)

    This is a useful feature to be considered where developers/admins can configure the default process portal email notification template by customizing - HTML content Process variables including exposed business data
    about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    SOAP Web Services Policy set and bindings for inbound and outbound integration should be supported for CP4BA

    Traditional Business Automation Workflow (BAW) supports defining policy sets and bindings for both inbound and outbound integrations. A customer who intends to migrate their existing BAW inbound and outbound integration to IBM Cloud Pak for Busine...
    over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Allow searches created by Navigator to include Custom Objects

    We need to allow a group of Application Administrators the ability to Edit properties on custom objects. Yes we could give them ACCE, but ICN is a much nicer end user interface, and they are already using it to search for documents. Here's an old ...
    about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

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