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...
Share feedback 8
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
Share feedback 0

All ideas

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    ECM Doc store: Zipping(compress) and Downloading Multiple PDFs in CPFBA Workflow

    When there are multiple pdfs listed in the doc list, make an option availble to download them all as a single zip file.
    15 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Additional setting within the audit definition to capture LDAP user access during content retrieval.

    Additional setting within the audit definition to capture LDAP user access during content retrieval. It could enhance traceability and compliance for sensitive document access
    3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Allow the use of an Entra ID workload identity for Directory Server Accounts

    The concept of non-human accounts doesn’t exist in Microsoft Entra ID typically applications where no human interaction is involved use OAuth client credential flow as explained here. The FileNet CPE makes use of some directory server accounts tha...
    3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

    Ability to Define a Default Workplace Task List View with Custom Columns for All Users

    In IBM BAW Workplace https://x.x.x.x:xxxx/Workplace, custom business data properties (for example: Branch, Approval Decision, Account Number) can be exposed as task properties and added as columns in the Tasks view. While these custom columns work...
    21 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Improve the Get Next functionality

    Scenario 1: 1. Case1 from default sorting order is opened by user in tab/browser1 leave it without processing 2. Case 2 is open in tab/browser2 and completed Expected is, Case3 (Based on sorting priority. This can next case in queue or any new cas...
    21 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Include System-Executed Tasks in BAI Events for ML Training

    The Machine Learning component in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) relies on task event data from Business Automation Insights (BAI) to train the Next Best Task (NBT) model. Currently, system-executed tasks (e.g., those completed by the Auto...
    3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Ability to control executions on RPA Launcher

    When a bot gets stuck, hangs, or encounters unexpected behavior during execution, users have no option to pause or terminate the bot from the Launcher UI. This idea is to add the options for Stopping/Pausing a bot executed through Launcher.
    about 1 month ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

    Ansible module to deploy CP4BA

    We have been deploying Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) using the cert-kubernetes package via the cp4a-deployment.sh script. Since certain organizations recommend deploying software using Ansible, we would like to submit this idea for cre...
    2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Improve IBM BPM CoachFlow logging by surfacing missing business object references and node execution metadata in a structured, user-friendly format.

    The current console logs in IBM BPM CoachFlow provide raw execution traces and warnings, such as missing references in business objects and node-level execution details. However, these logs are verbose and lack contextual grouping, making it diffi...
    about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Add possibility of Customization of filebeat.yml

    Hello It looks like that possibilty of the configuration of filebeat is minimal, only enable it by define filebeat-output.yml and add external output. It is not possible customization of filebeat.yml file by adding aditional processors for logs pa...
    2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

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