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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...

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Workflow Process Service support on CNCF - No routes needed

Customer's infrastructure does not support the usage of "Routes" to externalize product end points. Customer is deploying CP4BA - Workflow Process Service pattern. Be able to deploy Workflow Process Service addresses the limitation as it could be ...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Enable Support for Passing webhookID as a Parameter in Capture Services Toolkit for ADP Integration

Currently, the capture-toolkit-1.0-master-full.jar does not allow passing a webhookID parameter when submitting documents to ADP. This forces all ADP callbacks to be sent to a single, static webhook URL in BAW, limiting flexibility for workflows t...
8 months ago in Automation Document Processing 0 Not under consideration

Ability to change email addresses of users in a list

Customer needs a way to bulk change email addresses. Especially on SAML2 customers.
8 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

The current 2-minute timeout limit on HTTP requests in ODM Cloud is causing retrieval failures for large datasets.

Timeout errors occur during the retrieval process in ODM Decision Center (DC) when using ANT scripts to synchronize data from Rule Designer to Cloud DC. This is caused by the frontend server's 2-minute timeout limit, which is enforced to prevent D...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Not under consideration

Audit requirement in IBM BAW considering the login page of Process Portal

Audit requirement in IBM BAW considering the login page of Process Portal 1. Allowing users to reset the password on the first time login or when the password is expired. 2. Users able to change the password, set password expiry based on the passw...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Prevent Users from Modifying CMIS Queries in ECM Document List in IBM BAW

The ECM Document List component in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) dynamically generates CMIS queries to retrieve authorized case documents from IBM Content Platform Engine (CPE). However, penetration testing has revealed that users can int...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Process Inspector: Configurable area for the process application filter

In BAW 24.0.1, the Process Inspector’s filter now displays the list of processes within a fixed-size area that includes a scrollbar, ensuring that the control buttons remain visible at all times. This contrasts with BAW 24.0.0, where the full list...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Need to have Multi Factor Authentication in BPM

In BPM, we need multi factor authentication for improved security as a part of compliance
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Enhance "View Title" display update during "View Full Report" at page level

We store the mainframe batch jobs log information in CMOD at the DD_NAME level, with the DD_NAME field set as the "View Title". However, when we select "View Full Report" for a job in CMOD thick client 10.5.8, the "View Title" does not change as w...
9 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

Upgrade to MS SQL 2022 Compatibility Level to 2016 while on IBM P8 BAW 21.0.3.x before upgrading to BAW 24.0.x

Customers need to update their MS SQL Server environment to 2022 ASAP and request that they run it in SQL Server Compatibility Level 2016, which the customer is presently on (SQL Server 2016 SP2) before they upgrade to BAW 24.0.x on new hardware.
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration