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

    Include Gantt Chart and Diagram feature in BAW or a similar view for workflows

    There is a limitation of using federated Process Portal with BAW product, the Gantt Chart feature is not available in the container version. Although in several cases, a complete diagram workflow shows the user more information or details of the w...
    almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

    Include additional info about service task execution in data-index and data-audit

    The customer requests to store the inputs and outputs of service task execution in the BAMOE database (both the data index and the data audit) in order to use this information in customised interfaces for auditing/monitoring and tracking purposes.
    4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Planned for future release

    In Cloud pak for business automation, We need to update the certs in the odm_configuration.customization.trusted_certificate_list with a managed restart of the ODM Pods

    At the moment, when we change the certificate we have all pods restarting at the same time. This is causing a huge business impact and requires downtime which is not planned. This would benefit anyone looking to change certificates due to underlyi...
    4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Functionality already exists

    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.
    8 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Not under consideration

    Enable vulnerability scanning for CP4BA capabilities with WAS Automation platform

    IBM WAS Automation is very effective to keep us ahead of the vulnerability scanning on IBM Websphere and apply fixpacks to fix those. it would be really great if all CP4BA capabilities such as P8, BAW etc. can be covered under the same platform fo...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

    create a multipart form data http request containing a json and a file

    Based on the forum post created by Pedro Botolli Santos https://community.ibm.com/community/user/automation/discussion/how-to-create-a-multipart-form-data-http-request-containing-a-json-and-a-file-in-the-request-body?ReturnUrl=%2fcommunity%2fuser%...
    over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Functionality already exists

    Provide REST API capability to create a BAW group

    Customer needs the ability to create a BPM/BAW group, without being directly present on the server or requiring custom code.Currently a customer must be present in Process Admin Console's "Group Management" to create a group.The only API currently...
    over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Enable User to Assign a Name when using the reassignTo JS API to prevent the usage of "Temporary Group" as the display name.

    Tasks created via a Team Filter Service are provided custom names for ex: "The Analyst Team", or "Level 1 Processors". However, after a reassign is done via the JS API TWTask.reassignTo. BPM Just always creates an adhoc group with DISPLAY_NAME as ...
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Create new data groups with OR condition on BAI

    The inability to create a new data group with OR instead of AND prevents the display of all the data on the dashboard make it impossible to "merge" data when using multiple tracking ids. We need a way to either merge tracking ids data or just crea...
    8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Under review

    Disable error handling

    Add a command to disable error handling after activating it (eg: vb.net "End Try", vba "On Error GoTo 0")
    almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

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