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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).


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...
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

All ideas

Feasibility in moving arrows on process diagram

Customer trying to move arrows form one place to another place ( based on business requirement) on process diagram , some time arrows are not moving , or some times when they move arrows diagram is getting messed up. attached screen shots with exa...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Official Helm Chart Support for IBM Cloud Pak Workflow Process Services (wfps)

Provide Official Helm Chart Support for Cloud Pak Workflow Process Services (wfps)Our organization's current deployment and lifecycle management practices for IBM Cloud Pak Workflow Process Services (wfps) do not fully leverage the benefits of sta...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Credentials in IBM RPA update with expiration date, invalid highlight etc

IBM RPA has no options related to Credentials. Only to insert and update. There is no possibility to select Expiration date, invalid status etc and by this credentials can be very easy to revoke when more users are using same tenant. As inspiratio...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Support offsetting processInstanceId on new cp4ba/baw/wfps installations.

We are migrating from TWAS BAW to CP4BA and duplicate ProcessInstanceID (PIID)'s will become an issue for us. We use this ID many places in systems external to BAW and in custom database tables. And it will be a huge and risky change to support th...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Improve clarity and root-cause visibility in RuleApp deployment error messages

Product: IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) Version: 9.0.0.1 (Observed post iFix IF024) Background / Problem Statement: Following the resolution of defect DT463767 (delivered via iFix IF024), improvements were expected in deployment validation...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Is a defect

Task mining - solving a problem with a chrome browser extension

Task mining - solving a problem with a chrome browser extension Due to the need to have an extension for the chrome browser, there are problems with access from the organization. This results in the inability to record user activity in the browser...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Is a defect

Reset the overdue flag upon changing the custom data field without leaving and coming back to the same step

When the custom date field is updated to future date for overdue cases from BAW/Case Manager screen, the overdue flag should reset and recalculate the deadline, without moving the worktime from its current step.
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Update any red/green status indicators within the BAW UI application to improve accessibility.

Some users are unable to distinguish between red and green, making it difficult for them to interpret application status accurately. This is particularly impactful within the Event Manager Monitor in the Process Admin Console, but applies to any a...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

More granular permission management

The current functionality does not allow a user to select only the operation to be published without granting access to targets, servers, and the administration tab. Currently, the only way to enable a user to select an operation is by assigning t...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Not under consideration

Need to support http for PE server for containers

Right now, this is supported for Websphere/Weblogic only: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/filenet-p8-platform/5.6.0?topic=how-pe-pe-https-workflow-transfer-configuration-changes Want this support for containers as well. I.e. I have to use a custom net...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted