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...
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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
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    Res Console should provide warning message

    RES console should provide warning message when we disable ruleset make sure at least one ruleset enables state.
    7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

    CMOD - Parameter to turn on the Strict Carriage Control Validation in AFP Documents

    Update - 8/13/2025 See attached email Related ticket https://w3.ibm.com/tools/caseviewer/case/TS019780232 Original description Since CMOD v10.5, stricter validation for carriage control (CC) on AFP documents has been introduced. For example, blank...
    7 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

    Default Permissions for Spaces when created

    Client is requesting that when creating a new space in BWL, they are wanting to the permissions to be set to the lowest setting, instead of having the default (which applies most permissions to users to access). Permissions for sub-spaces should i...
    7 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

    Please continue MAPI support to upload OnDemand files to Outlook as an attachment.

    Hi Team, Please continue to support MAPI function in the CMOD application despite Microsoft disconnecting in the near future. The end users love the 'send' feature in the CMOD app and with the 'new' outlook being introduced it does not allow users...
    7 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

    Enable Document Processing toolkit functionality within BAW workflows to support document field highlight interaction.

    Currently in CP4BA, the Document Processing toolkit is only supported within Business Applications and is not intended for direct use inside Business Automation i.e (BAW aka workflow capability). However, there is a growing need to integrate advan...
    7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

    Is there a smarter / different way we can accomplish profile variables in Decision Central?

    We create profile variables to capture dynamic and changing values, trying to find is there a smarter / different way we can accomplish profile variables in Decision Central?. More details will be provided once we have a case engineer assigned
    7 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

    At least once a day users will have to restart redhat because it just gets stuck spinning on something.

    At least once a day users will have to restart redhat because it just gets stuck spinning on something. Please investigate in the back end to find the root cause as we are unable to write rules
    7 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

    Master branch: The master branch is editable. Would be good if this was not the case.

    Master branch: The master branch is editable. Would be good if this was not the case as we accidentally push to master branch.This could cause unexpected issues as the code is pushed into master branch which should only be done by pull request
    7 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

    Unit testing is inconsistent in it's results.

    Unit testing is inconsistent in it's results. Sometimes it fails multiple times, then suddenly passes when tested later with no other changes.
    7 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

    Validation check passing in rules authoring but failing in test execution

    Having some issue with validate check passing in DC where a specific import is missing, i.e. import com.abc.api.product.applicant.Income. It’s passing validate check however later on our testing is throwing errors. Can we check in DC if there is a...
    7 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Not under consideration

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