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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).


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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:

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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,

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  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...

All ideas

Support automatic Process SVG generation during Maven builds

Provide a supported way to generate BPMN Process SVG files during the Maven build, without requiring Visual Studio Code or manual steps. Currently, SVG files can only be generated through the BAMOE VS Code editor, making it difficult to automate C...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.4.x 0 Needs more information

FileNet and Content Cortex container deployments should create Gateway API ingress on CNCF Kubernetes cluster

Currently for FileNet container deployments on CNCF Kubernetes clusters, the FileNet Operator can create the Ingress Nginx configuration for the FileNet endpoints in the Kubernetes cluster. However, Ingress Nginx has been retired as of March 2026 ...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

To be able to tag other Blueworks users when you add a comment to a process diagram.

All users would benefit from being informed that there is a comment for their attention, because presently the comments are not always picked up by the required users immediately. This could work by allowing the commentator to tag the required Blu...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

BC - Ability to better organise and manage queries

When managing queries in the Business Console under a rules project, it is not possible to organise queries into subfolders or perform other tasks that are normally available for other decision artefacts, like locking/unlocking and filtering. Now ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Future consideration

Limiting User search from Platform IdentityManager

During the current go-live at ONGC, this is a major challenge. The Platform Identity Manager search does an entire search from LDAP repository without any pagination support or any limiting criteria. The limits should be configurable - whole idea ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Bai event format configuration to have the processAppAcronym in the messages in IBM Business Automation Workflow

We would like to have the processAppAcronym in the messages in the future. Either as a default value or configurable to configure the events to contain the "processAppAcronym" - a short unique identifier for a processApp. We need it to distribute ...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

FileNet Content Manager on Containers should allow tracking infrequent users

FNCM terms provide the concept of Infrequent Users, stating "Licensee must track accesses by Infrequent Users to verify that they meet the access limitations of Infrequent Users." In traditional environments, ILMTCollector/ILMTReporter are a means...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

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.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Functionality already exists

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.
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration