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

    Allow linking between process flows using send/receive link event.

    Blueworks Live should allow linking between blueprints using the send/receive link events much like message linking works but not defined as a message. The biggest problem is there’s no way to link multiple sequential flows via a link event to ano...
    over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

    Having the possibility to export Scripts from Control Center with their schedule to import into a different environment.

    If customer has multiple environment he can move Scripts with their schedule to a different environment without uploading and scheduling one by one.
    over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

    Windows Authentication Support for CP4BA Database connections

    Currently traditional BAW supports both SQL Server and Windows authentication methods. However, CP4BA only has the SQL Server authentication support. Some organization policies do not allow using SQL server authentication when databases are runnin...
    over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 6 Future consideration

    Improve IBM BPM CoachFlow logging by surfacing missing business object references and node execution metadata in a structured, user-friendly format.

    The current console logs in IBM BPM CoachFlow provide raw execution traces and warnings, such as missing references in business objects and node-level execution details. However, these logs are verbose and lack contextual grouping, making it diffi...
    8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Request for a separate feature to map organizational roles and hierarchy flows.

    Currently, IBM Blueworks Live focuses on process mapping and does not directly support hierarchical organizational charts. This limitation poses a challenge for administrators who need to visualize and manage organizational roles and hierarchy flo...
    over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    Link to Case: documents(FileNet/CMOD) attached to case must have On Hold symbol/icon

    Currently it is confusing if attached/Link documents are not having On Hold symbol. Client as Well IBM will benefit. When user link FileNet/CMOD documents to the case, that documents must show the On Hold icon/symbol against each document. Current...
    almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 8 Not under consideration

    Creating users, groups and roles by using REST API should not ignore those created in the DC Business Console Administration tab

    The DC REST API to retrieve the user roles registry is: GET /v1/repository/users-roles-registryBut in fact it does not retrieve all the users / roles. It only retrieves " the last configuration file that was uploaded". In fact the documentation ev...
    over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    Setting default Coach View for a Business Object type

    It would be nice to be able to set default coach view for each business object. Something like associating files with program. If there are multiple coach views that have the same business object type as binding, user could choose which one would ...
    over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    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...
    almost 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

    Ability to add variable as path to script in Execute Script command

    Starting from version v30.0.1, Execute Script command automatically loads Parameters from the script being called. Due to that, variables are no longer acceptable in the command's path as they get created by runtime. The idea is to add a flag so t...
    4 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

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