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

    Provide a native, configurable hard block that prevents a user from claiming or starting more than one Work Item (WID) at a time, applicable across all case types.

    IBM Business Automation Workflow currently allows users to claim and work on multiple Work Items (WIDs) simultaneously across different browser sessions or tabs. This capability creates data discrepancy issues and operational challenges in product...
    10 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    I see we can send the image to the models and get the extraction rather sending the OCR page text to watsonx.ai models. I see better accuracy for the terrible handwritten documents

    I see we can send the image to the models and get the extraction rather sending the OCR page text to watsonx.ai models. I see better accuracy for the terrible handwritten documents
    over 1 year ago in Datacap 2 Future consideration

    BAW CI/CD support to other Git hosts (e.g., Bitbucket and GitLab)

    product support for BAW CI/CD support to other Git hosts (e.g., Bitbucket and GitLab)
    11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Provide Object Store Mapping Support During Deployment of Promoted Legacy Case Solutions from Workflow Center to Connected Workflow Servers

    IBM Business Automation Workflow supports deployment of promoted legacy Case solutions from Workflow Center to connected Workflow Servers. During deployment, users can choose whether to install the snapshot; however, there is currently no option t...
    about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Submitted

    Support IAM roles for S3 uploads

    Today, uploading files to S3 only works with static AWS Access Key + Secret Key credentials (plus the bucket). This forces customers to create and share long-lived credentials, which is a security concern and doesn't fit how many AWS teams operate...
    3 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

    SOP section of Library

    Similar to the Policy section there should be an SOP section where you can add details about the SOP and then connect the SOPs to your process/activities. Being able to connect it like Policy means that you can reuse them instead of just pasting t...
    12 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

    Allow to build rulesets with the same artifacts name in different projects of a decision service.

    If the 2 ruleflows or 2 rules have the same name in the same package in different projects we need to be able to include those in the ruleset generated. Adding the project name as a folder path would allow for being able to distinguish all artifac...
    12 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

    Ability to specify a custom Flyway migration location for a specific KIE module

    We need to replace a PostgreSQL migration distributed by the following BAMOE 9.5.2 module: org.jbpm:jbpm-addons-usertask-storage-jpa:9.5.2-ibm-0002 The module provides its KIE Flyway configuration through: META-INF/kie-flyway.properties For Postgr...
    12 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x 0 Under review

    Provide a supported option to suppress or sanitize Java exception class names returned in BAW REST API exceptionType responses

    Environment Product: IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) Version: 26.0.0 Database: DB2 Operating System: RHEL Deployment: WebSphere Application Server-based BAW environment Affected interface: BAW Workflow REST API (/rest/bpm/wle/v1/...) Issue ...
    12 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    CSV Injection Vulnerability

    The application allows user-controllable data to be exported in CSV format without proper sanitization. Fields containing user input, such as names, descriptions, or comments, are directly embedded into CSV cells. When opened in spreadsheet applic...
    12 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Submitted

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