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

    Would like support for CPE/ICN/etc. on Openshift to communicate and function w/ICCSAP on stand-alone/on-prem RedHat

    Please see case TS015518568 as a reference. We are migrating our on-prem, Websphere ND and stand-alone Linux (RHEL) environment to Openshift (OCP). We have migrated the following applications to OCP: - CPE - ICN - CMIS - TaskManager ...
    over 2 years ago in Content Collector for SAP 0 Future consideration

    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

    script in flowchart format in designer

    Currently, call graphs can be viewed in Studio. This allows us to grasp the call relationships, but does not allow us to see the branching and loop structures. Therefore, it would be good to have a function that allows business users to view s...
    over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

    Support updating managed files via API call

    We should be able to update managed files with an API call even if it is only restricted for use by admins. The only option is to update a managed file without deploying an app is with the command BPMUpdateFile, but I was told this is not supporte...
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Functionality already exists

    Provide a supported configuration option to customize the NGINX keepalive_timeout for ODM Decision Server Runtime ZenExtension in IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation.

    Environment IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) 24.0.1 Operational Decision Manager (ODM) deployed on Red Hat OpenShift Decision Server Runtime (DSR) exposed through the CP4BA Zen Front Door (NGINX) ZenExtension resource automatically ge...
    3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

    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.
    9 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

    Start Browser in Selenium's Stealth Mode

    As it is today, IBM RPA's Start Browser command doesn't have the option to start the browser in Selenium's Stealth Mode. The idea is to create a flag to enable this.
    over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Submitted

    Increase the amount of exportable rows in excel format in IBM Blueworks from 3,000 to 6,000

    This will reduce the number ofhighly manual clean up and reconcillation exercises that instititutions with a large number of spaces need to perform.
    over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review

    looking for a feature which it can trigger an email to respected owner name when you put any new comment @ Owner name for any process or approval flow

    looking for a feature which it can trigger an email to respected owner name when you put any new comment @ Owner name for any process or approval flow It actually helps, as some times , people are not knowing that they need to review some comments...
    over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

    Translation mechanism for ICN custom menus

    When changing regional settings, no translation mechanism exists to manage localized values of custom menus is ICN. The custom menu value should be able to be localized, and not be a fixed value. For example : I create new actions through a plugin...
    over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Is a defect

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