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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

AI-Native Task/Process Suitability

Most organizations today are trying to identify how and where to apply AI in their processes. Businesses are simply providing AI assistants to employees to improve productivity, but not looking at the process itself to transform it from manual to ...
26 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Get BAI to be more flexible in the naming settings

Context and Requirements Our organization has a convention of exposing all external services on the bdapps.* domain rather than apps.*. On our namespaces, we add the label type=bdapps, which causes the “bdapps” router to be used instead of the def...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Submitted

Spring Boot 4.1 Support in IBM BAMOE

Our organization is aligning with the enterprise technology modernization roadmap, which mandates adoption of the latest supported Spring ecosystem versions for security, supportability, and long-term maintenance. Currently, IBM BAMOE 9.5 supports...
2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x 0 Planned for future release

Upgrade RRProcessor.exe as a 64-bit process

Currently, RRProcessor.exe runs as a 32-bit process, which limits the usable memory to 4GB. The process occasionally encounters out-of-memory errors and terminates unexpectedly. This issue stems from the inherent 4GB memory limit of 32-bit processes.
about 1 year ago in Datacap 3 Future consideration

Enhance Process Diagram Visualization with Connector Color Customization and Rich Text Annotation Formatting

Blueworks Live provides effective process modeling capabilities; however, diagram readability can become challenging in large or complex process maps containing multiple alternate paths, escalation flows, integrations, and annotations. We propose ...
27 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Enable Support for Secrets Store CSI for FNCM Standalone CNCF

To ensure feature parity with other DBA products (ODM on CNCF - existing; CP4BA - considered), the option to integrate FileNet Content Manager with external secrets stores that support Secret Store CSI Driver for additional security is important. ...
10 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Under review

Support Jakarta XML Binding instead of Javax XML binding in newer ODM release

On ODM 9.5, jdk is moving to JDK 21, and runs in Jakarta EE container, but Liberty/ODM is still running Javax XML binding instead of Jakarta XML Binding. We want use the new xml binding 4.0 instead of old one.
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

slaDueDate not return on usertask instance

Unable to get slaDueDate on the task details with the User task subsysteme API Also, slaDueDate is not available from management console Can you do the necessary to make it available?

OAuth 2.0/OIDC support for the CMOD REST APIs

Due to client security standards and integration requirements, OAuth 2.0/OIDC support for the CMOD REST APIs is important for this mission critical service.
14 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

Synchronization of Process Portal User Preferences and Attributes across Federated Environments

Provide a mechanism to automatically synchronize Process Portal user preferences and profile attributes from the federated Process Portal host to all participating federated workflow servers. Example, when there's a federated topology like this: A...
28 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted