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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

Add trace/debugging mode for IBM RPA clients (Agent)

Improve the serviceability in the debugging of the IBM RPA client logs. Users currently, to enable logs in the information level, have to manually navigate to the installation folder, change the log files manually and restart the IBM RPA agent ser...
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Create nested BAW internal groups when creating BAW internal groups from a process application deployment

Internal groups are also created implicitly during a process application deployment if the snapshot includes security groups that do not exist on the target system. But, if those internal groups have nested internal groups, those nested groups are...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Single Sign On EOL

The IBM Business central product LDAP integration is exclusively with Red Hat SSO. We've learned from Red Hat that this product will reach its end-of-life on June 30th We need to see if there are any other solutions like Azure Entra ID is availabl...
10 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Future 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

Differential/incremental migration support

Customers sometimes need to migrate their deployment environments to different hardware. In such cases, the migration can take a long time due to the large amount of data in the database. If the data migration takes a long time, production service...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

A bulk update facility in updating same data fields with the same data for multiple process\activity boxes.

A bulk update facility is now becoming a must. We are waiting days and sometimes weeks updating the same data fields with the same data, and wasting hours and hours of time on this and this time can definitely be spent on more pressing items of work.
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 2 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...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

In-product outage information and other important news in a modal once we log into the Control Center

Currently, users only get notified of shortages via email. This is easily missed due to the number of emails we all receive. Having a modal once you log into the tenant would be the best way to deal with this.
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Governance: Only one single notification is send for trigger via Governance app, incase of no action by users. There is no option to send reminder notification or escalation.

Multiple reminders and escalation to be triggered incase of no action being taken for open process app tasks.
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 2 Planned for future release

Please enable "send button" from Ondemand Client for MS office 365 in future versions

Users are looking the "send button" in ondemand client for MS office 365 so that they can directly send all reports directly to outlook as a attachment instead of download the repirts ion desktop and manullay attaching them. It was working before ...
7 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Future consideration