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
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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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All ideas

    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

    Allow linking between process flows using send/receive link event.

    Blueworks Live should allow linking between blueprints using the send/receive link events much like message linking works but not defined as a message. The biggest problem is there’s no way to link multiple sequential flows via a link event to ano...
    11 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

    Make the IBM Content Navigator Edit Client Service temp-path configurable

    It's by design that the ICN Edit Client downloads documents to the %TEMP% and %APPDATA% directories. It would improve usability to make the app/temp folder configurable in the Edit Client's configuration file. For security reasons the default loca...
    over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

    Requesting to include Artifact ID in the artifact change grouping in the Blueworks Account Activity Reporting API

    Requesting to include Artifact ID in the artifact change grouping in the Blueworks Account Activity Reporting API. We encounter duplication records in Activity log API extract. The assume duplication records show the same data of 2 different activ...
    over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 4 Planned for future release

    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...
    almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under 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...
    almost 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

    Provide Trigger Support (File/Folder/Email)

    Many use cases implemented with IBM RPA with Automation Anywhere are using the trigger feature to issue the bot start. Triggers like a new file in a given directory, a new email arrived are often needed and used.
    almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

    Request for a separate feature to map organizational roles and hierarchy flows.

    Currently, IBM Blueworks Live focuses on process mapping and does not directly support hierarchical organizational charts. This limitation poses a challenge for administrators who need to visualize and manage organizational roles and hierarchy flo...
    11 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

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