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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:

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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 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
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...

All ideas

Add the ability to invoke a specific node or a group of nodes within a decision model through the ADS REST API, allowing callers to target a subset of the decision graph without executing the entire model.

Currently, the ADS Decision Runtime REST API only supports execution at the decision service operation level. There is no mechanism to target a specific node or a logical group of nodes within the model. The proposed feature would allow API consum...
3 months ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Under review

Write out the month (e.g. Jan, Feb, Mar...) when displaying the date

Display all dates as 13-May-2024 (instead of 13.05.2024) The month should be displayed in Chracters then as a number. Many other systems have this option, for example Jira, see example attached.
almost 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

I want to see all the individual IFixes with versionInfo which are included in particular Cumulative IFix release

In the following link, we note which IFixes are included in a particular Cumulative IFix https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-business-automation-workflow-will-begin-releasing-cumulative-interim-fixes-versions-24x-and-higher It's customer expecta...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

Close functions editable elements accessible via mouse are not reachable using keyboard on Search and Viewer pages

When navigating the Search or Viewer page using keyboard only, certain editable and interactive UI elements that are accessible with a mouse cannot be reached, focused, or operated using keyboard navigation (Tab, Shift + Tab, Arrow keys, Enter, Sp...
6 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Under review

Customization of the Teamworks login page

We are seeking to customize the login page located at teamworks/login.jsp. However, we understand that there may not be an officially supported method for doing so at this time.
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Requesting CP4BA to support Akeyless

We are running CP4BA 25.0.0 on AWS cloud platform. Currently, we are using AWS Secret Manager as the secret provider in CP4BA. Based on the business requirement, we need to change it to Akeyless. But we are informed that Akeyless has not been qual...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

support for Long type (or equivalet)

BPM is a widely used product, which integrates with many different systems. Long type is also a widely used data type, which many systems use and send/receive.BPM must support such a common type, in order for the integration with all the other sys...
over 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Allow Users to Add a Custom PVC to the Workflow Process Service (WfPS) Component

Customer has a custom application that requires an absolute path to be specified. This is possible by mounting a custom pvc with the required mountPath. The requirement is to allow customers to add a PVC to the Workflow Process Service component. ...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Planned for future release

In BPM, we need to have details of last login of a user and feature to enable or disable user if last login is greater than 30 days

It is useful to sort out only active users frequently using MDM. We need a feature to enable or disable an LDAP user based on last login of LDAP user in application. We also need a feature to delete the LDAP user from MDM application. This feature...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Run type field in the data-source on the dashboard

With the new licensing format, the customer has no way to follow the usage of his license via the dashboard, because we have no information in the data source on whether that record is from an attended bot or unattended bot execution.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration