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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
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...

All ideas

IBM ODM Compatibility with AWS Bottlerocket Container OS

Support for running IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) using AWS Bottlerocket OS. This OS is required for security and hardening standards, and we would like IBM ODM to be certified/validated for this environment
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Rediscover option for external services

If an external service is created based on the discovery of a Java, REST, or Web Service, a rediscover button is essential. This button would enable the updating of the methods associated with that service or defined object structure without the n...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Future consideration

Button to remove all variables with 0 reference

After finishing more robust developments it would be nice to have a button which would automatically delete all variables which in the final status of development have 0 references. Now we have to scroll through the variables panel and remove one ...
9 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Planned for future release

WFPS runtime/authoring - BPMN emitter without BAI?

Hi We are using WFPS runtime/authoring environments. We need BPMN events to flow to Kafka. From there we have a custom consumer which reads the events and we are not currently interested in the other features of BAI. We cannot configure events to ...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Allow attributes on relationships between models, and also on relationships to glossary items

A linkage between a process maps and an property value (e.g. a system), or between two process maps is currently possible in BWL. The value of those relationships would be greatly enhanced if we could store custom property values against those rel...
13 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review

Separate permissions for users to create Process Blueprints, and Journey Models

We have two separate taxonomies in Blueworks - one for Journey models, and one for process models. Currently "Process" users with Editor licenses can create Journey models in the Process taxonomy and conversely "Journey" users can create Process m...
13 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Deleted Archived branches with an API

We have a large amount of branches and we need to do a cleanup. The only way currently to do that seems to be by following documented manual steps in Workflow Center. We'd like to be able to do this by API, this would be a huge help and reduce tim...
25 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

[Action Hub] Support for Creating a service integration with OAuth authetication method

Enable secure, standards-based connectivity by allowing users to create service integrations using OAuth 2.0 authentication. This feature streamlines third-party system connections, supports token-based authorization flows (e.g., authorization cod...
6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Support direct upgrade from CP4BA 24.0.1 to CP4BA 26.0.0 on Openshift

We moved to BAW 24.0.1 traditional because it was the first version in which process instance migration from traditional to containers was possible. Since we wanted to move to containers quickly we did not wait for the 25.0.0 release. After we hav...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Decouple BAW and CPE due to licensing issue

Currently, it is not possible that Process Portal to be used (without repository - CPE) in a CP4BA environment, as it is tightly coupled currently. The operator configures CPE URL, its credentials, its connection information as part of the BAW pod...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration