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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Archival Support for BPMN Process Instances in CP4BA/BAW

Currently, CP4BA/BAW provides an archive system for BPEL (BPC) process instances, snapshots, branches, and tracks, but no equivalent feature exists for BPMN process instances.Providing a consistent archival mechanism would allow users to move comp...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

Datacap Navigator under verfiy screen interface does not display the full file path of the document selected for upload. Which makes it difficult to confirm the source location of the document.

Enhance the Verify UI to include the complete file path of the browsed document. This will allow users to verify the origin of the file before submitting the batch, ensuring accuracy and reducing errors caused by selecting files from incorrect dir...
5 months ago in Datacap Not under 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.
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Not under consideration

Make font and line color of linked processes/message events hypertext color (blue: active / purple: visited)

Viewers may not understand the functionalities of Blueworks Live, but keeping with web standards for hypertext links are generally blue/underlined or purple/underlined for visited links. Changing the fill color defeats the purpose of color-coding ...
3 months ago in Blueworks Live Not under consideration

Make BAMOE Developer Tools VS code extension open source

The new version of the IBM BAMOE Developer Tools for VS Code is a great improvement over the classic editor, but it still has several bugs, problems, and known limitations that need to be addressed. This is generally true for the classic editor as...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Not under consideration

Improve search filter usability in IBM Content Navigator: Display static text when only one option (e.g. “Include all”) is available

When creating a search in IBM Content Navigator (ICN), under the property options configuration, users can define the filter options — for example, selecting Include all as the only valid option. However, when the search is created, the filter dro...
5 months ago in Content Navigator Not under consideration

Tooltips remain visible and block interface components during native UI configuration in ICN

When using a native user interface within IBM Content Navigator, tooltips that appear and sometimes remain visible and do not disappear as expected. We want, through configuration, in Content Search, to hide the tooltips of a predefined multi-choi...
5 months ago in Content Navigator Not under consideration

provide some kind of encapsulation option (private, public) for ODM project variables

Context : Rule Designer, rule authoring, variable definition To provide a better user experience for business users, and avoid confusion in variable completion.It would be good to provide an encapsulation concept for projects variables : ex privat...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Add an option for Decision table to execute only first instead of all matching rows

It involves quite some work and sometimes cause confusion (as it depends on the execution mode of the rule task) to implement the requirement to execute first matched row in a Decision Table.It will greately simplify the rule writing if there is a...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Support for Mac as an RPA client

Currently, RPA clients only support Windows, Since many business users use Mac(iOS), supporting Mac will provide more opportunities for use.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Not under consideration

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