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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).


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
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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Time-Based SLA Escalation Paths

Allow visual configuration of SLA escalation logic (e.g., email reminder after X minutes, reassign after Y hours) to Reduces reliance on external scripts or custom logic for escalations.
10 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Modern Low-Code UI Designer for Coaches

Introduce a React- or Angular-based coach designer with drag-and-drop components, real-time previews, and built-in responsive design.
10 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Remove the character restriction for #$\&=^ in Business Automation Workflow

Business Automation Workflow advanced software doesn't accept the usage of specific characters including #$\&=^ in the external or internal passwords, citing the invalid characters usage in the password from command line tools: "property has a...
11 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

BMPConfig tool is failing to create deployment environment because of the hyphen(-) in the DB user ID and in the databases name (ex: CMN-DB)

Our service accounts are generated with hyphen(-) in the ID using the automation process and we are unable to remove the hyphen(-) from the service account ID to support the working terminology of the service accounts. Due to this reason BAW advan...
11 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

WINDOWS AUTHENTICATION support on LINUX REDHAT OS for BAW Advanced software

The current BAW advanced software doesn't support WINDOWS AUTHENTICATION on LINUX REDHAT servers to backend SQL Server on windows. This idea is raised to implement the WINDOWS AUTHENTICATION functionality to support on LINUX REDHAT OS to windows OS.
11 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Support configurable transaction timeouts for REST API operations in IBM ODM to improve CI/CD pipeline reliability.

Currently, IBM ODM only honors transaction timeout settings for the Business Console, while REST API operations do not reflect these configurations. This limitation affects use cases where long-running operations—such as importing branches or crea...
12 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

IBM Process Mining to allow widget to display a list of case IDs on metrics creation

IBM Process Mining to allow widget to display a pop-up and list of case IDs on metrics creation. Users want to, after a widget is created that a pop-up appears when on the table cells. See the following example: - In a table widget with severities...
12 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Add support for Tomcat 10.x for BAMOE 8.0.x

Currently, BAMOE 8.0.x supports Apache Tomcat 9.0.x but not 10.x. Adding support for 10.x would be helpful.
12 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Under review

we use Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes on top of our RHOCP environment, and we're looking for an alternative to netcat which is used in the liveness probes by Kafka in BAI functionality

To summarize our observations and the joint session findings: The Zookeeper container includes the Netcat binary, and it actively uses Netcat to discover other Zookeeper pods during startup. ACS detects this behavior and kills the pod, which preve...
15 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Submitted

Start Browser in Selenium's Stealth Mode

As it is today, IBM RPA's Start Browser command doesn't have the option to start the browser in Selenium's Stealth Mode. The idea is to create a flag to enable this.
16 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Submitted