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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 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
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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Prevent Users from Modifying CMIS Queries in ECM Document List in IBM BAW

The ECM Document List component in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) dynamically generates CMIS queries to retrieve authorized case documents from IBM Content Platform Engine (CPE). However, penetration testing has revealed that users can int...
13 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Auto-create fields based on "empty" sample

In cases where a PDF has hundreds of checkboxes - like a user survey form might have, it becomes tedious to define all the fields. The current design forces each field to be manually created with name and type upfront, before you can map it to a l...
18 days ago in Automation Document Processing 0 Submitted

Enhancements in Infinity Loop Detection Properties for batch runs or schedules

Existing Loop Detection Property : <service-engine> <loop-detection-duration merge="replace">240</loop-detection-duration> <loop-detection-exception merge="replace">true</loop-detection-exception> </service-engine&...
19 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

IBM BAMOE support for Java 21

We have a dependency of java 21 in order to use our latest logging frameworks. Please provide a timeline as to when can we expect IBM BAMOE support for java 21.
20 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Submitted

API endpoint to list executed bots

IBM RPA uses API endpoints to call Bots outside of Control Center context, like an external application. Customer suggested having an API endpoint to check for the history of bot executions to understand whether an instance has been executed or no...
21 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Application is vulnerable to cross site scripting (XSS)

While we are creating group on BPM process admin URL at that time it is taking special characters as input. we want to block those special character like {}[]()!@#$%^&* Risk : cross-site scripting (xss) attacks are a type of injection, in whic...
25 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Ability to integrate with open AI models/framework other than watsonx.ai action library

we got feedback from the Ontario ministry of health canada client with concerns in using watsonx.ai. The AI board at OPS has a few external AI models/frameworks (AWS and Microsoft ones) approved but not watsonx.ai.
25 days ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

Process Inspector: Configurable area for the process application filter

In BAW 24.0.1, the Process Inspector’s filter now displays the list of processes within a fixed-size area that includes a scrollbar, ensuring that the control buttons remain visible at all times. This contrasts with BAW 24.0.0, where the full list...
25 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

BAI instalation on a Local Red Hat OpenShift

BAI to installed on a local Red Hat OpenShift, on a RedHat 9 single machine. refer to SNO (Single Node Openshift and not using pull Open shift deployment, Small profile hardware requirements and Just Flink needs 2 replicas
26 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Submitted