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,

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

    Enhance documentation for ARSUUPD Compile

    Customer wishes to compile the arsuupdt user exit for CMOD V10.5 on z/OS; both their custom C implementation and the supplied sample exit return code 6. They need to know what the correct JCL for compiling the arsuupdt exit should look like? Unfor...
    2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

    IBM RPA does not support HTML elements inside a 'shadow-dom'

    Today the IBM RPA does not support HTML elements inside a 'shadow-dom' making click, focus, and other commands impossible to work in context within the browser. This feature is important because without the necessary support it is not possible to...
    about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0

    Add OpenTelemetry support to runtimes

    Please, add OpenTelemetry support to runtimes. OpenTelemetry is vendor neutral, industry-standard method of providing observability ( https://opentelemetry.io/docs/ )
    9 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 1 Future consideration

    FileNet Object Stores and definitions created by a CR Defintion

    It would be really good have a FileNet Operator that created object stores and definitions based on a CRD in OpenShift with an appropriate operator. This would also help in the installation process making things far easier to debug.
    over 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

    Option to abort running LogCleanupCommand

    We need the LogCleanupCommand to be able to be aborted quickly when it is running. The LogCleanupCommand is scheduled daily to run at 9 pm local time, but if it is still running at 7 am, it needs to be stopped so as not to impair the overall perfo...
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Is a defect

    Support for sites that block automation

    The only supported way to automate a web application is to use the IBM RPA Selenium web driver, with this, some sites are blocking access. A form of web automation without the use of the Chrome Driver would be extremely useful, so websites would ...
    over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Not under consideration

    Search by process app name

    Our development environment (BAW 21.x, BAW24.x Traditional) currently contains more than 40 process apps and approximately 90 toolkits. I am part of platform team and I do code review on these process app and toolkits. I have admins right and I se...
    4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    wfpsRuntime should expose Prometheus metrics for monitoring

    CP4BA monitoring can happen through Prometheus ( doc ). This is not currently implemented for wpfsRuntime. Getting a full view for the complete stack is essential for effective operations. Therefore, also Workflow Process Services Runtime should e...
    4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Default sort for case documents widget

    When the user opens a case, the document widget defaults to sorting by "Document Title / Document Name". The business is requesting the default sort be on "Date Added / Added On" instead. Currently we can't find a way to change the default sort or...
    about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

    use of MIME type application/pdf in OpenAPI Rest service invocation

    Business case use the need of implementation of PDF in rest api services as evolving technology
    over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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