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

    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 ...
    about 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    Ansible module to deploy CP4BA

    We have been deploying Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) using the cert-kubernetes package via the cp4a-deployment.sh script. Since certain organizations recommend deploying software using Ansible, we would like to submit this idea for cre...
    10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

    Support SSH keys for signed Git commits in BAMOE Canvas

    BAMOE Canvas currently allows users to work with GitHub repositories, but it does not provide a way to configure an SSH key for signing commits. This creates a limitation for organizations that enforce repository rules requiring all commits to be ...
    5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

    Add @mention functionality to comments

    Addressing comments/tasks directly to other users by mentioning them within a comment would be a great feature and make collaboration even more efficient. Ideally mentioning users in a comment would trigger an email notification and create a task ...
    5 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

    Online Backup and Restore

    Availability of online backup and restore features and capabilities in Cloud Pak for Business Automation
    over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Future consideration

    Enable Support for Hashicorp on CP4BA to Store Secrets

    ODM on CP4BA diverges from the RBC standards with respect to storing “secrets” such as credentials. The OpenShift preference is to manage this with a component called Hashicorp Vault. ODM on Kubernetes alrady supports this but CP4BA does not. We r...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Planned for future release

    Positioning of boundary events and flow paths on collapsed/expanded sub-processes

    When adding a boundary event to a sub-process, when you expand the sub-process the flow paths from the boundary events do not originate at the actual boundary events and instead sometimes appear center bottom of the expanded sub-process. This make...
    about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 7 Planned for future release

    Refresh the Datacap Verify batch tree so that all information in the Batch Tree panel is reloaded from the task XML after the Alternate Task profile completes

    Currently, the verify UI does not refresh all the information in the Batch Tree panel from the task XML after the Alt Task profile completes. In the Verify UI, the Alt Task Profile is executed to automatically update the batch DCO—such as adjustin...
    8 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

    Add property within the Deployment Environment configuraion properties file to disable data sources

    When migrating exisiting configuration to new machines some DB's might needed to be blocked . In our case we have created a duplicate test environemnt for our BAW version so we needed some DB's data sources to be blocked.
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under 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\#...
    almost 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

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