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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

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

    Showing 2663 of 2663

    Enable cloud/Container ODM users to directly access the full set of sample projects—identical to those available for on-prem local installations—within Rule Designer or via a dedicated, downloadable package.

    This is useful because it allows cloud and container-based ODM customers to access essential training and reference materials without installing a full ODM server. Developers, technical teams, and new users would benefit by reducing setup complexi...
    26 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Needs more information

    Support for presenting client certificates during outbound HTTPS calls does not exist.

    Currently, Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) does not provide a straightforward mechanism to configure mutual SSL (client certificate authentication) for outbound HTTP/SOAP web service calls. This limitation impacts customers who need to s...
    27 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    We want to be able to choose format for dates in exporting decision table to Excel.

    in IBM ODM Decision Center 9.5, whenever we export a decision table to XLSX, dates are written in the format M/D/Y H:MM:SS AM/PM. Is there a possibility to change the format to Y-M-D HH:MM:SS. Example: Instead of 08/31/2025 03:00:00 PM, we would l...
    27 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

    Need a mechanism in BAMOE to allow dynamic rule updates

    Need a mechanism in BAMOE to allow dynamic rule updates so that business users can modify existing rules (e.g., add new conditions or fields) without going through the full redevelopment and redeployment lifecycle. Expecting to have this via custo...
    27 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Under review

    Ability to Configure Custom Starting Values for Instance IDs and Task IDs

    Request for a configurable option that allows IBM BAW administrators to define custom initial values for Workflow Instance IDs and Task IDs. In the current IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) implementation, all environments start generating In...
    30 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Process Admin: Prevent synchronizing users that return in user searches in BAW, BAStudio

    By default, all users returned from a user search are automatically added to the BAW database tables. This behavior can become problematic when a Process Admin user search returns a large number of users, resulting in unnecessary data being insert...
    30 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Support for POSTGRESQL

    We currently deploy CMOD on AIX and do not have the ability to use POSTGRESQL as database. POSTGRESQL is our db of choice moving forward.
    about 1 month ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

    Allow for autocorrect/grammar check.

    This would benefit everyone, because it is a small but powerful part of making the processes more sharp and professional. It is really not efficient to have to go through and manually change spellings of things because we can't click on the correc...
    about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

    make the "at risk" calculations configurable in process portal

    Current behavior In Process Portal, the At Risk indicator is currently calculated using the following logic: At Risk = (Average Historical Time to Complete Task + Current Elapsed Time) > Task Due Date This approach depends on historical average...
    about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    IBM needs to provide a method for IBM Content Collector (ICC) for SAP to enable SAML authentication with the State's IBM Verify IDP, currently ICC for SAP does NOT support SAML authentication methods.

    IBM Support and Dev have been engaged to troubleshoot with the customer. There are no known workarounds. ICC for SAP is working as designed but does NOT support URL encoding, which is required for SAML authentication with IBM Verify SaaS. This iss...
    about 1 month ago in Content Collector for SAP 1

    By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
    Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.