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

    Ability to select text from eml and docx. files rendered in Daeja ViewONE Virtual viewer

    We have received request from our Daeja Virtual user base in which they are unable to select text from .eml and .docx files. We are able to select text from PDF's.
    3 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted

    Keycloak Logout Redirect to DC/RES

    Useful in usability of the product as users would need to bookmark the DC/RES pages or else it is not accessible to the login page after clicking logout. This behavior should be similar to the logout using basic auth. The DC/RES ODM team need to i...
    8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Planned for future release

    Provide a curl batch deployment command for decision center deployment

    In order to deploy in other places than directly to the res, (example maven artefactory/nexus repository) , it would be nice to have the ability to create a curl deployment command deployment tool in Decision Center. The content of the command wou...
    over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 6 Not under consideration

    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

    Content Assistant Client Managed should describe approach to determine and limit Authorized Users

    As of Dec 2025, Content Assistant Client Managed Software is entitled through Authorized Users, which leads to the question how access to the feature and the related license cost can be controlled and limited. Using Content Navigator, the ICN desk...
    3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

    API to get user IP /true client IP, user_agent, Session id/Public IP

    Cybersecurity and defence teams are making it mandatory to log below details for each processApp when user tries to login, user performs some action in the application. Few details are available but details like True client IP, user_agent, session...
    3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Modify Content Navigator Admin desktop so that there is an option NOT to use SSO

    Any organization that implements SSO for Content Navigator would benefit
    8 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

    mTLS support for ODM on Kubernetes required for Apigee integration

    mTLS (mutual TLS) protocol is required for ODM on K8S for Apigee integration. Mathias Mouly has stated that it's possible to mTLS support for ODM on Kubernetes See Slack thread: https://ibm-cloud.slack.com/archives/C7L0AD0PJ/p1737652228664479?thre...
    11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

    Provide notification before LTPA token expires

    Our Process Servers have been upgraded to BAW 20002. At this release, when the LTPA token expires, users are logged out without notice. In some cases end users have lost information entered into data fields.
    over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    support for Long type (or equivalet)

    BPM is a widely used product, which integrates with many different systems. Long type is also a widely used data type, which many systems use and send/receive.BPM must support such a common type, in order for the integration with all the other sys...
    about 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

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