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

All ideas

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    Allow files greater than 2GB to be loaded

    We are receiving single files greater than 2GB (2.2 GB) which are ASCII/ISO text files used for merchant reconciliation and encounter error ARS1412E when trying to load them. Therefore we must be able to load text files bigger than 2GB. Other MIME...
    over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

    Cache choice list data on the client side to improve performance

    We have a number of long-running queries, and while indexing is helping, additional gains could be achieved if choice lists could be cached.
    10 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

    Filter and sort variables in Studio by input/output parameters

    In IBM RPA Studio, there should be an option to filter/sort the Variables window in order to quickly and clearly identify a script's input and output parameters. Currently, the Variables window can only be sorted by variable Type. Adding the input...
    over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

    When the rule property names are long, the user expects the details pane to adjust in width accordingly without having to resize manually

    Our business users use Business console to managed and maintain their business rules. We have a sizable team of business users . An increasing feedback from the business users we have been receiving is their frustration on resize(expand) the rule ...
    about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Is a defect

    IBM RPA Server - Support for SQL Server 2025

    Some customers are upgrading their Windows Server environment to the latest version, Windows Server 2025, which is currently not supported by our solution. This limitation is blocking their deployment plans, as they cannot install the IBM RPA serv...
    7 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 2

    Retaining the Content Type for migrated documents.

    We have implemented ICC-SharePoint with FileNet. We were able to migrate the SharePoint documents to FileNet successfully (with Leave item and Replace link). However we have noticed that the migrated document's Content Type gets changed to 'Migrat...
    about 1 year ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 1 Planned for future release

    Enhance ICC FSC Metadata File Collector to process JSON metadata files

    We have a use case to feed Content File and JSON metadata File as a pair to the ICC task route where we wanted to map the JSON attributes to Content File and archive it to FileNet Content Manager repository, right now the out of the box functional...
    3 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Future consideration

    Move all functionality that requires modification of the product .war files (like secured htds & dynamic domains) into the product itself

    With installation and management of the product needing more and more to be 100% automated, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain one-off instances of RES & Decision Center when the DecisionCenter.war and DecisionService.war files have...
    over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Not under consideration

    Improve the Default Theme UI by resizing text boxes for better alignment with the legacy Classic Theme.

    Hello Product Management, I would like to request a feature enhancement concerning the default theme on behalf of the client, Booz Hamilton. This pertains to the user interface (UI) real estate in the default theme compared to the classic theme. P...
    over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

    Provide mechanism to limit authorization for BAW OnCloud service accounts to specific BAW exposed REST Service endpoints

    Currently when a service account is created in the BAW OnCloud instance, it has access to any out of the box REST endpoints or REST Service that is developed as part of a solution. It would be very beneficial if, when provisioning or after creatio...
    about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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