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 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

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    Allow managing (delete, edit) object tables within an organization directly from the IBM Process Mining GUI.

    Object tables in IBM Process Mining are used to add contextual master data (such as vendors, materials, locations, or products) to projects, enriching process analyses with relevant business information. Currently, while users can create, append, ...
    4 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2 Functionality already exists

    Allow for object store mapping procedure in Online snapshot installs

    Previous Case Manager users who have Case solutions with solution artifacts (stored searches, email templates, etc) outside of their DesignOS are unable to do solution deployments via online snapshot install because the online install process skip...
    8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    Many DC projects must ingest mail from Microsoft 365. Today this requires custom scripts or generic IMAP/EWS workarounds that don’t support Graph-specific features (delta sync, throttling controls, large attachments, change notifications). This increases delivery time, fragility, and support costs.

    Ship a first-class Microsoft Graph source connector with: Auth: OAuth2 (App-only client credentials) + delegated optional; tenant & conditional access friendly. Mailbox scope: user mailboxes, shared mailboxes, groups; include/exclude via filte...
    4 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

    Ability to order case variants by maximum duration

    When filtering the model by case variants in Process Mining, you may want to check what's the case that showed the max duration in order to narrow down the flow it took during the whole process. This idea is to create the ability to order case var...
    6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

    Expanding the Number of Snapshots and Task Instances in BAW in CP4BA

    Currently, in Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA), the BAW component has a default snapshot limit of 110 and an instance limit of 1,800,000. This value is configurable and can be increased manually, but when these modifications are made, per...
    about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    GenAI Search Document Query Object

    Provide an API that will allow for searching based on document properties and their values so the search can be incorporated into the GenAI Multi Doc process vs. having to query FileNet to get the document GUIDs and then call GenAI Multi Doc. This...
    4 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 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...
    12 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

    Support for the ability to compare rule flows between versions in Business Console

    Since Enterprise Console functionality was removed in ODM 8.11.0, it is no longer to compare rule flows that were previously available. My customer has been using this feature for some time now and would like us to add the ability to compare rule ...
    over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    Improve edit service configurable temp path

    What we can do is to improve for this: Since we can't avoid popping up the 'Save As' window, we can only try to optimize manual settings/steps in option 2 to make the Temp file path configurable for the end user. The current temp folder(C:\Users\#...
    about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

    UI_Preferred_Logon prohibits to add users or groups to the ZEN administration

    Our endusers would like to be brought directly to navigator after having selected the URL in their brwosers. We are using OICD and this works great. Because we want to supress the dialog where you could select the authentication methods we have co...
    almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

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