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

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    Improve the Get Next functionality

    Scenario 1: 1. Case1 from default sorting order is opened by user in tab/browser1 leave it without processing 2. Case 2 is open in tab/browser2 and completed Expected is, Case3 (Based on sorting priority. This can next case in queue or any new cas...
    22 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    End point can link to an activity in different map/process

    This case is very useful when there is continued activities in another map/process instead of end the process. Users need to continue the activities by following the another map (Not from start but the second or third activity in a new map). When ...
    23 days ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

    Add Support for Island Enterprise Browser

    The Island Enterprise Browser is not currently a supported browser in IBM RPA. Several customers are now migrating to Island as their corporate standard and need to port their existing automations to work with it. Native support in commands like "...
    23 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

    Allow new installation from scratch on new server with latest fixpack installer.

    Allow new installation from scratch on new server with latest fixpack installer. The product got its last release 4.0.1 eleven years ago. Since then, only new fixpacks have been released. Currently first installing the release 4.0.1 using this old...
    23 days ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Is a defect

    ProcessInstances and UserTaskInstances are two separate root queries, make it possible to combine them into a single unified result using GraphQL

    Require a single comprehensive API (facade layer) to streamline workflow integration.
    23 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 1 Functionality already exists

    Process Versioning in BAMOE 9.3

    Considering a scenario where I have a long-running process workflow, such as "hiring," with active process instances. Then, if I create another version, "hiring1," how do I handle the client code from which I need to trigger the REST API's, consid...
    24 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

    Enhance Case Client “Create Package” export to derive file extensions from MIME type

    Environment Product: IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) Version: 21.0.x Platform: IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) Deployment: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) 4.16 Component: Case Client / Case Package expor...
    24 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Needs more information

    CmAbstractDependent-based search in FileNet SQL Query

    It would be convenient to be able to perform object store search based on any dependent-object property value (e.g. CmAcmBusinessObject from ICM)Currently we have to create string-serialized properties and update them constantly for searching purp...
    25 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    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.
    28 days ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted

    Allow CP4BA Admins to add a Custom PVC to the BAW Authoring and Runtime

    We have deployed CP4BA v25 - BAW in our OpenShift cluster. As of now we are using the file path that is mounted by default (/opt/ibm/bawfile) to store and access BAW application specific configurations. We would like to add additional paths (custo...
    28 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

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