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
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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...
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All ideas

    Integration of CP4BA with GitLab and Jenkins

    IBM Team, While the IBM documentation currently references GitHub and JFrog as supported integrations, there is a clear need to extend support to include Jenkins and GitLab. These tools are widely adopted in enterprise CI/CD pipelines, and their i...
    8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

    FileNet FDM Limitation When Discovering Security Principals using SCIM

    IBM ECM Team, FileNet Content Manager with SCIM configuration in CP4BA successfully returns all users and groups without any issues. However, when performing the same discovery through FDM, only 500 security principal entries are returned, instead...
    8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Datacap does not accept numeric value in username filter

    Datacap accept user ID in alpha-numeric and only numeric value is not accepted. This seems to be a design concern, since there is no validation or constraint on the format of the user ID, and this ID is directly used to define an XML element name,...
    over 1 year ago in Datacap 2 Not under consideration

    The Audit Logging service that targets Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Audit and Accountability controls

    It is a strong business requirement to have audit logging for BAW traditional (self-managed/on-prem) platform while processing sensitive business data. It is a showstopper to automate processes which have sensitive data due to lacking of audit log...
    4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    IBM BAW on CP4BA plugin to accept same WSDL format of type "document" in container and non container environment.

    We have identified an incompatibility with WSDL generated by IBM ODM while importing that WSDL in IBM BAW environment, if the Target environment of the toolkit is set to "TRAD or CON" "Traditional or Container".It was working perfectly as expected...
    over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

    Migrate from MSMQ to IBM MQ system queue provider in IBM RPA

    In situations where MSMQ does not fit the organizational needs in terms of package availability or network complexity, there's the need to use IBM MQ as the IBM RPA system queue provider to work with schedules and processes. Currently, this operat...
    almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

    Web PD: Ability to switch between snapshots when connected to online Workflow Server

    In our BAW environment, our Dev team can connect to online Workflow servers and debug the instances. However, if we need to switch between snapshots: 1. We will have to navigate out of Web PD process inspector 2. Select the application and a new s...
    over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    mTLS support for ODM on Kubernetes required for Apigee integration

    mTLS (mutual TLS) protocol is required for ODM on K8S for Apigee integration. Mathias Mouly has stated that it's possible to mTLS support for ODM on Kubernetes See Slack thread: https://ibm-cloud.slack.com/archives/C7L0AD0PJ/p1737652228664479?thre...
    over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

    For Document Explorer: Allow a developer to filter which document classes, display name and properties appear when a user clicks add document. Much like using an Entry Template with FileNet and Content Navigator

    Allows for better customization for case solutions and only presents the information necessary for the case type being worked.
    about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    Rule Designer 8.12.0 does not accept three-level Base Version such as 2.79.1

    Please see details in Case TS021272402.
    9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

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