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).


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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
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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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    BAW repository

    BAW has no general repo. in 2024 in BAW its hard to control changes done for a project which uses heavely Tracks its also annoying to manually make this changes between tracks which are prone to errors. Please develop a repository in which Merge a...
    about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

    Ability/Flexibility to Modify/Delete Existing Case Properties

    To improve flexibility and usability, it would be beneficial to enhance the product’s ability to add or modify case properties even after solution deployment. Allowing modifications to existing properties directly within the solution would provide...
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Change ephemeral storage usage to generic ephemeral volumes

    The current usage of ephemeral storage (via {emptyDir} in deployment manifests can cause problems for bigger shared Openshift/Kubernetes environments, since the storage is allocated on the node storage, which can lead to pod eviction in case of un...
    about 1 year ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Under review

    Log file improvements

    At the top of the log files we would like you to have information about the client version. In case the client updated its version, we suggest a WARN in the file informing that the version was updated. If the log file is deleted, we ask that the n...
    over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Allow scheduling of Rule runner threads

    There may be times when you want certain tasks to only run during certain times - maybe off hours. It would be nice to either be able to configure threads to be enabled/disabled for set times instead of manually having to enable and disable. An ex...
    over 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

    Need a logout API for all components of CP4BA to programatically logoff a given user.

    Customer is using IBM Verify for Authentication and Authorization. They are using SSO. They need to provide a global logout option, when the user clicks on this global logout, the user should be logged off from all the applications, including all ...
    8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 6 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 1 Not under consideration

    User Account Activity API

    Hi Team, In BWL from Community tab, under "Account Activity Stream" we need "User wise activity" export using an API on monthly basis. We have option in BWL UI as manual export but its very time consuming when we try to export for more users. If w...
    about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

    Remove reliance on WAS 8.5.5

    Many customers in the public space are mandated to use current versions of products. WAS is currently at version 9, but BAW requires WAS 8.5.5 creating a technical roadblock that requires a policy waiver and special attention by the security team.
    almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Functionality already exists

    Fully enable BAW in the CP4BA to exploit EntraID

    The CloudPak foundational services includes support for integration with EntraID, which allows for EntraID-integrated support of most of the BAW components. However, there are several documented known limitations here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/...
    10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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