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 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

    Support valueFrom: secretKeyRef / configMapKeyRef env var wiring in the CP4BA CR for data sources, code modules, task services, and ICN plugins.

    Use Case The CP4BA operator and its Custom Resource do not allow customers to bind container environment variables to individual keys inside a Kubernetes Secret or ConfigMap using the standard valueFrom: secretKeyRef / configMapKeyRef pattern. Thi...
    3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Enable Dynamic Snapshot Targeting for Internal Message Events and UCAs in Cross-Application Messaging

    Request to add the ability to dynamically specify target snapshot names when using "Sending Intermediate Message Event" components for cross-application messaging, similar to the snapshot targeting capability currently available in the Event Manag...
    3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Adding mail attribute of LDAP in LSW_USR_XREF table

    Why is it useful? We are currently working on workflow implementation for Qatar’s largest bank, which has more than 475 processes running in the production environment and a substantial number of new instances being created daily. The daily task v...
    10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    In IBM Content Collector create a new collector that can connect to and archive content from S3 storage

    S3 storage is becoming more frequently used for various applications and it would be useful to be able to access and archive content from this type of storage.
    over 2 years ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Future consideration

    ActionHub Monitor for Events

    Nowadays, ActionHub can monitor project-level objects like Activities, Processes, and so on. It may be required by the customer to monitor event-level data, i.e. the volume of data uploaded reaching a certain threshold. The idea is to add such a f...
    3 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

    Have a Global setting for automatic resizing of content to fit column in Decision table on Decision Center

    As a result of the new decision table editor, we want to have all our decision tables automatically fit to screen as it was in the Legacy decision table editor. This specific request is for the Decision Center. After sharing some data through a Su...
    3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    Support for Mutual SSL (Client certificates authenticating) for connecting to z/OS server.

    In our organisation the use of passwords for Non Personal Accounts is being discontinued. The directive is to use authentication with client certificates. (a.k.a. Mutual SSL) DB2 for z/OS is supporting this type of authentication but Content Manag...
    7 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

    In case of multipage PDFs, the new action allows us to define which pages will be OCR’ed and analyzed by Datacap. Same as action SplitTIFFPageRange for Tiff-Files.

    If a MultipagePDF includes 100 pages all of them will be extracted. We just need the first page the process will take minutes until all pages are extracted in a time critical process (1 Batch in less than 15 sec.). that is not exactable. The actio...
    over 1 year ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

    Possibility to change the installation drive of IBM RPA

    Nowadays, during the installation of IBM RPA, the user can't choose which driver to install the product, it's set by default as C: drive. Due to that, we could implement this option in the near future since some Infrastructure/DevOps teams don't ...
    almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future 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...
    about 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

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