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.


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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

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    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 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

    Enable Document Processing toolkit functionality within BAW workflows to support document field highlight interaction.

    Currently in CP4BA, the Document Processing toolkit is only supported within Business Applications and is not intended for direct use inside Business Automation i.e (BAW aka workflow capability). However, there is a growing need to integrate advan...
    5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

    Gitops approach for installation/upgrades using ArgoCD

    Customers like Swiss Federal Office for Information and Telecomunication are using exclusively gitops approach to install and upgrade containerized applications on Openshift.CP4BA and its underlaying CPFS are relying on scripts which are doing a b...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Not under consideration

    IBM Integration Designer add RHEL 10 as a supported platform.

    Redhat is must easier to use with gnome desktop and more simple that the restrictions in Windows platforms for UTE. The Unit Test Environment (UTE) JDBC connection to Db2 requires manual interventions and developers must work with Security require...
    4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

    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 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Not under consideration

    Need a logout API for all components of CP4BA to programatically logoff a given user.

    Customer is using IBM Verify for Authentication and Authorization. They are using SSO. They need to provide a global logout option, when the user clicks on this global logout, the user should be logged off from all the applications, including all ...
    6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 6 Not under consideration

    IBM CMOD OpenShift Operator (Day-1/Day-2 automation, HA patterns, ODF-ready)

    Deploying and operating CMOD on containers still requires many manual steps (sizing, PVCs, routes, upgrades, backups, HA tuning). Inconsistent setups slow delivery and increase risk during upgrades and recoveries. Please provide a Red Hat certifie...
    about 2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

    Enable the Content Collector SharePoint API to leverage Graph Site Selected permissions to isolate access to individual sites instead of across the entire tenant to minimize risk exposure.

    We have a sharepoint list and script that allows App APIs a certain permissions level. If ICC Azure App can leverage graph API site selected permissions, we could minimize access to only the sites we grant access to.
    4 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Not under consideration

    Order Process instances by execution time, not name

    When you're working with an orchestration process, you usually want to analyze the instances by date/time of execution, not necessarily by its name. Due to that, we can change the instance list to be ordered by date/time by default, not by name.
    almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

    Return "error" object in onError event handler for BAW Service Data Table UI component

    The Service Call UI component in BAW returns an "error" object in the onError event handler so the developer has access to details about the error and can even display for the user, if desired. This request is simply to add the same for "error" ob...
    2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

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