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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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AI Enhancements - Evaluate process health and provide report (processes that have owners and do not have owners, last updated/stale, unpublished vs published maps)

AI Enhancements - Evaluate process health and provide reports (processes that have owners and do not have owners, last updated/stale, unpublished vs published maps)
14 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review

6Only editors & contributors or admins can copy spaces to other Blueworks Live accounts – would like “admins & editors” as an option in "Customization" tab

Only editors & contributors or admins can copy spaces to other Blueworks Live accounts – would like “admins & editors” as an option in "Customization" tab
14 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Governance workflow owner can't publish maps then delegate to another user (someone else needs to submit to publish so I can reassign)

Governance workflow owner can't publish maps then delegate to another user (someone else needs to submit to publish so I can reassign)
14 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Limit who can create new spaces at the highest level (only admins) – no restrictions on the spaces at the highest level in your library, user restrictions begin inside of those spaces

Limit who can create new spaces at the highest level (only admins) – no restrictions on the spaces at the highest level in your library, user restrictions begin inside of those spaces
14 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Support full Kafka protocol for event - key and header support missing

Our BAMOE 8.0.5 deployment on OpenShift is integrated with an external Kafka cluster. In the processes that are running in our BAMOE instance, tasks shall be used to send and receive Kafka messages, containing a message value and a specific messag...
28 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Under review

Provide a new tool for Building, Creating and maintaining the Custom Query table

We have several BPEL Processes in which we implemented the standard functionality of the query tables. We always used the procedure described in the documentation of the IBM Business Automation Workflow and before for BPM and WPS: Creating query t...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Submitted

Provide a containerized image of Content Manager OnDemand

The page Building and deploying Content Manager OnDemand in a Docker container (ibm.com) explains how to set up, configure and run a standard version of CMOD in a Docker container. It would be more useful that IBM provides a cloud ready version of...
about 1 month ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Under review

Provide option for viewers to only display properties containing a value

Current limitation: When a viewer displays a process documentation and selects "Show All Details" all property fields are being displayed no matter if they contain a value or not. This is negatively impacting the overview and is not consistent wit...
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Link to Case: documents(FileNet/CMOD) attached to case must have On Hold symbol/icon

Currently it is confusing if attached/Link documents are not having On Hold symbol. Client as Well IBM will benefit. When user link FileNet/CMOD documents to the case, that documents must show the On Hold icon/symbol against each document. Current...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 8 Not under consideration

Gitops approach for installation/upgrades using ArgoCD

Customers like Swiss Federal Office for Information and Telecomunication are using exclusively gitops approach to install and upgrade containerized applications on Openshift.CP4BA and its underlaying CPFS are relying on scripts which are doing a b...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Not under consideration