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).


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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:

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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

    We need a password type for environmental variables

    We would like a password type that obfuscates the password value for environmental variables. We have several services that we call with basic auth with a system user. Developers are not allowed to know production passwords. This means that we hav...
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Disable error handling

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

    Request for Unified Timezone Configuration Across ALL CP4BA Components

    Dear IBM/CP4BA Team, We would like to request a unified approach for configuring timezone settings across all CP4BA components. Currently, timezone configuration must be managed individually for each component through jvm_customize_options (for ex...
    5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

    Request to Enhance Logging Parameters Documentation and Feature Support

    Dear IBM/FNCM Team, The current documentation for Logging Parameters only references a limited set of configuration options. However, there is a requirement to support integration with Elasticsearch using additional authentication mechanisms such ...
    5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    BAW Support OKTA/SCIM without requiring an LDAP backend.

    LDAP is a dated technology. Our organization is moving away from it and toward SCIM. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/25.0.https://bigblue.aha.io/ideas/idea_promotions/new?idea_id=75433933163565974550?topic=notes-known-limi...
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future 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%...
    about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Functionality already exists

    Add a setting for changing the event manager blackout period date format

    There's currently no known way of changing the date format shown in the Process Admin Console for things like the event manager blackout period selector. Ideally this should be determined automatically from the user's time zone or similar exposed ...
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    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...
    about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Undo from Accidental Deletion - does not exist.

    Current pain point that is super frustrating. Accidently key press that deletes an entire structure and there is NO WAY to undo that within the Discovery Map Tree Structure. When you accidently blow away a structure - there appears to be no way to...
    about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

    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...
    about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

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