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

    Support deployment of IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) on WebSphere Application Server 9 (WAS 9)

    A frequent situation in customer projects is a coexistence of WAS 9 (for FileNet/GraphQL) and WAS 8.5.x (for BAW).This creates unnecessary complexity in administration, maintenance, security patching, and operational governance. Enabling BAW on WA...
    6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    [SOE] Support AWS ECS Fargate

    IBM BAMOE v9 currently supports license tracking through IBM License Service (ILS), which only runs on OpenShift or Kubernetes clusters. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibamoe/9.0.x?topic=installation-overview-license-metric-tool-ilmt However, BAMOE a...
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.1.x 0 Future consideration

    ODM Cloud direct zip file for Rule Designer

    By making the latest ifix with jdk, plugins and eclipse in a zip file available for download on the IBM ODM cloud portal, we can simplify the process for customers and ensure that everyone - clients and support teams alike - are on the same page. ...
    over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Planned for future release

    Detailed error messages

    The application should return generic error information to the user. Detailed error information should only be logged on the server side.
    6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Submitted

    Provide ability to save Audit logs in Database

    Currently, audit logs are being stored in the audit‑logs PVC. Please provide the capability to store audit logs directly in a database. We need a feature that allows CP4BA audit logs to be written directly to a database rather than only to persist...
    6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

    Have a configurable “Service unavailable” page for CP4BA components, which are currently unavailable, instead of the “Bad Gateway” error page.

    Please find the detailed description of the scenario which we encountered recently. Business Justification: The “Bad Gateway” page does not provide users with meaningful information when a service is unavailable. A customized “Service Unavailable”...
    9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Snapshot comparison view of process blueprints or list of changes

    If you work on a process blueprint you often have the need to see what has changed from one version to another or compare two versions. This can be either achieved by a simple list of changes, or a side-by-side comparison of the old versus new pro...
    almost 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

    IBM CMOD REST API support varies application servers

    I have an idea for the IBM CMOD REST API to support and be compatible with various application servers. Currently, the CMOD REST API only supports WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Liberty. However, many customers maintain a vendor list f...
    over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

    Making hyperlink clickable in a pdf or Word doc

    Currently, if a process diagram is exported to Word or a PDF and there is a sub process with a hyperlink, the hyperlink appears to only be active in text at the top of the page. Can we make the hyperlink active in the activity in the Word doc or P...
    3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

    Support choice list-based properties in FileNet Marking Sets

    We would like IBM FileNet Content Platform Engine to support properties associated with choice lists when defining or using Marking Sets. Today, Marking Sets are a very useful mechanism to dynamically apply security based on metadata values. Howev...
    3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

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