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 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 8
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

All ideas

    Spellchecker included within the Rich Text UI control.

    Users would be able to utilize a generic spell checker within the control, avoiding the need to export and re-import text just to check spelling.
    6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

    Task mining - additional information about time spent (applications and webpages not included in the list)

    In the Dashboard tab, after displaying information about Agent interaction, information should also be provided about the time spent in applications and pages not included in the list.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

    Provide information about the DBLock table

    The DBLOCK table is not documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/fr/odm/9.5.0?topic=schema-tables-standard-features It is not part of the original schema, However, it can be created at runtime, and some customers have faced permissions issues for it...
    4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Is a defect

    Allow for use of workload identities with Microsoft Entra ID

    The concept of non-human accounts doesn’t exist in Microsoft Entra ID typically applications where no human interaction is involved use OAuth client credential flow as explained here (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity-platform/v2-oa...
    11 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 1 Future consideration

    Allow the use of an Entra ID workload identity for Directory Server Accounts

    The concept of non-human accounts doesn’t exist in Microsoft Entra ID typically applications where no human interaction is involved use OAuth client credential flow as explained here. The FileNet CPE makes use of some directory server accounts tha...
    11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

    AI Code Assistant Integration for IBM BAW

    Enable integration of AI-powered code assistants within IBM Business Automation Workflow to support users in supporting, refining, and understanding code across the platform. Similar to capabilities found in modern IDEs, this assistant would provi...
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    Add Suspend with SuspendUntil functionality for human tasks in BAMOE 9.2.x

    We request the reintroduction of the suspend (with suspendUntil parameter) capability for human tasks in BAMOE 9.x. This feature, available in previous versions (e.g., RHPAM 7.x / BAMOE 8.x), allowed suspending a human task via API until a specifi...
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Future consideration

    Provide option for viewers to only display properties containing a value

    Current limitation: When a viewer displays a process documentation and selects "Show All Details" all property fields are being displayed no matter if they contain a value or not. This is negatively impacting the overview and is not consistent wit...
    about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    Process mining - project archiving capability

    Process mining - project archiving capability In the projects/backups tab, it should be possible to generate a file for a given project for archiving purposes. The project file should include the remaining options (insight and actions, model setti...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

    Screen repository

    Create a repository in order to save the elements retrieved by recorder with the relative image preview. When I have to automate a new use case with the same application, instead of capture a new element, I can get it from the repository and use i...
    over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

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