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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IBM Integration Designer add RHEL 10 as a supported platform.

Redhat is must easier to use with gnome desktop and more simple that the restrictions in Windows platforms for UTE. The Unit Test Environment (UTE) JDBC connection to Db2 requires manual interventions and developers must work with Security require...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

Enable BAW’s JSON parser to correctly interpret `0E+0` (scientific notation for zero) in external REST service responses.

When invoking REST services via OpenAPI, BAW fails to parse response fields that return the value `0E+0`. The parser attempts to coerce it into a Long (integer), which Java does not accept in scientific notation, leading to a `NumberFormatExceptio...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

provide some kind of encapsulation option (private, public) for ODM project variables

Context : Rule Designer, rule authoring, variable definition To provide a better user experience for business users, and avoid confusion in variable completion.It would be good to provide an encapsulation concept for projects variables : ex privat...
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Add an option for Decision table to execute only first instead of all matching rows

It involves quite some work and sometimes cause confusion (as it depends on the execution mode of the rule task) to implement the requirement to execute first matched row in a Decision Table.It will greately simplify the rule writing if there is a...
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

More granular permission management

The current functionality does not allow a user to select only the operation to be published without granting access to targets, servers, and the administration tab. Currently, the only way to enable a user to select an operation is by assigning t...
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Enable the Content Collector SharePoint API to leverage Graph Site Selected permissions to isolate access to individual sites instead of across the entire tenant to minimize risk exposure.

We have a sharepoint list and script that allows App APIs a certain permissions level. If ICC Azure App can leverage graph API site selected permissions, we could minimize access to only the sites we grant access to.
10 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files Not under consideration

Modify Content Navigator Admin desktop so that there is an option NOT to use SSO

Any organization that implements SSO for Content Navigator would benefit
11 months ago in Content Navigator Not under consideration

Res Console should provide warning message

RES console should provide warning message when we disable ruleset make sure at least one ruleset enables state.
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

CMOD - Parameter to turn on the Strict Carriage Control Validation in AFP Documents

Update - 8/13/2025 See attached email Related ticket https://w3.ibm.com/tools/caseviewer/case/TS019780232 Original description Since CMOD v10.5, stricter validation for carriage control (CC) on AFP documents has been introduced. For example, blank...
11 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) Not under consideration

Default Permissions for Spaces when created

Client is requesting that when creating a new space in BWL, they are wanting to the permissions to be set to the lowest setting, instead of having the default (which applies most permissions to users to access). Permissions for sub-spaces should i...
11 months ago in Blueworks Live Not under consideration

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