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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).


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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,

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  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

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Old BFM (BPEL) APIs available with valid and complete OpenAPI specifications on BAW swagger.

Currently BAW swagger only offers only BAW Process/Task API (OpenAPI standard) whereas BPEL, HTM and BFM are currently not available on BAW Swagger definition. With the enhancement customer can make use of the standard OpenAPI definition available...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

To have Revision history and the snapshot history in the Web PD

In the Web PD, it is not possible to see the Revision History and the list of snapshots that are already snapped in a particular process app/toolkit. For the artifacts that can only be developed and viewed in Web PD, like CSHS, Service Flow, Proce...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Improve the Zen Access Control UI to manage non-LDAP groups

Today, it is possible to add a non-LDAP group via the API /v2/groups/{group_id}/members, even if the documentation seems to imply that this should work only with 'ldap_groups' groups: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/foundational-services/4....
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

IM/Zen support for authentication/authorization with OIDC+LDAP

CPFS Support for OIDC+LDAP ( to support CP4BA migration use cases) Description: The main request is about support for OIDC+LDAP in IM, but this RFE has in fact a much broader scope.It also includes requests for:improvements to the IM UI, to make i...

Snapshot comparison view of process blueprints or list of changes

If you work on a process blueprint you often have the need to see what has changed from one version to another or compare two versions. This can be either achieved by a simple list of changes, or a side-by-side comparison of the old versus new pro...
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Show number of instances on a subprocess without having to drill down in Process Performance Diagram tab

Use case: When business users want to see the status and number of instances active for each subprocess at the top level The Process Portal Process Performance diagram tab shows the number of active instances for each activity in the Process App. ...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Set retention period via REST API call

Retention period for a case folder in ACCE can be set manually, but there is no REST API call available for that. Would it be possible to expose a REST API call for setting the Retention period and document it in the existing Case Manager REST API...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Field Validation required enhancement on Plain-Text contro

Plain text display error even after correcting the value with valid data. Scenario: If a text field already has a pre-populated value. The user clicks on the text field and enters an invalid input that does not match the defined regular expression...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Is a defect

Simplify the container image download procedure for BAW or Cloud Pak for BA

Hi IBM colleage, Start from Cloud Pak for BA 21.0.3, the customer cannot download the installation file or container image file directly from IBM Passport Advantage Portal. The cusotmer needs a lot of effort to download the Cloud Pak for BA or BA...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Not under consideration

Stats break down - functionality to be added

In the Workflow ‘Stats', a feature needs to be built such that, upon filtering, we should be able to get the break-down of Stats, i.e. Count of;1. How many processes have been completed 2. How many approved 3. How many rejected 4. How many are sti...
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration