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

    Add config option to decision center to reduce information disclosure in Deployments tab

    Right now the Deployments tab is returning more information than needed. The user name and the URL of the target deployment console is returned in the GET request. Impact: This information is not needed in the UI, and it might be of aid in attacks...
    4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Is a defect

    Introduce authoring‑time validation (or mandatory warning) in IBM Operational Decision Manager to prevent saving decision table preconditions that contain unresolved placeholders (e.g., <a number>), which currently pass validation but fail during deployment.

    IBM ODM allows users to save decision table preconditions that include unresolved placeholders without errors or warnings. Although these preconditions appear valid at design time, they consistently cause build or deployment failures. This creates...
    4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

    All users can see who created a blueprint and who last modified it, over 90 days

    Give all users the ability to view who created a blueprint and who last modified it, even it has past the current 90-day period. It is crucial to be able to see who created an existing blueprint so if another user has a process that overlaps or du...
    almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    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...
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

    Is there a way for administrators to disable or restrict the PDF export (Print PDF) option for Viewer users?

    Currently, there is no option to disable or restrict the PDF export option for Viewer users in IBM Blueworks Live. This limitation poses a challenge for administrators who need more control over document sharing and export permissions. Are there a...
    over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

    Control over process map linkage - limit linkable map locations as an admin function

    Challenge: all maps in the Blueworks estate appear on the 'list' of maps to link to. This includes content that may be stored in sandpits, training spaces etc. Requirement: Provide an admin function to allow the admins to restrict the content whic...
    5 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    Include System-Executed Tasks in BAI Events for ML Training

    The Machine Learning component in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) relies on task event data from Business Automation Insights (BAI) to train the Next Best Task (NBT) model. Currently, system-executed tasks (e.g., those completed by the Auto...
    9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Native XLSX export from IBM Content Navigator lists

    Description IBM Content Navigator currently provides a standard export capability from content lists / search result lists to CSV format. While CSV is useful for simple exports, many business users expect an Excel-compatible .xlsx file that can be...
    2 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

    Configurable CSV export parameters in IBM Content Navigator

    Description IBM Content Navigator currently provides a standard export capability from content lists / search result lists to CSV format. However, the generated CSV file uses fixed output settings, including the separator character. In some region...
    2 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

    ICN should allow users to modify the document class via Entry Template

    We have a business user case in which we aim to let users rectify initial categorization mistakes or switch categories to sub-document types. However, IBM Content Navigator (ICN) lacks a built-in feature for end-users to alter document class, nece...
    over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

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