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:

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

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    Option to indicate inline or not inline variable output for decision service

    New feature/option to allow a developer to indicate whether variable output for a decision service should be inline or not inline. The option would allow the output to include the original wrapper object.
    4 months ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

    Cross-Project Search Capability

    We would like to see a cross-project search capability in ADS. This capability would allow us to search across all projects to determine where an element is used/set. Right now, the search capability is limited to searching within a project.
    4 months ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

    Option to customize the user context menu in decision tables

    Since version 9 or 9.5, the 'Hidden' and 'Table Properties' options have been available to rules managers. Considering our usage of the tool, we would like to be able to modify the context menu from the business console in order to remove them. In...
    4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    Clean pending processes on queue

    Possibility to clean pending processes on queue. We identified that in some cases the processes were not executed and remained pending. The same happened with scripts that were running and failed, generating a backlog of pending processes (even if...
    over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

    Include updated OIT version when they implement this Enhancement: "Enh 26048204 - Java API equivalent to SCCOPT_NUMBERFORMAT"

    CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: In ICN, when you "Download as PDF" a excel file with German formatted date fields, in the generated pdf file the date format is in US format. In other words DD/MM/YYYY becomes MM/DD/YYYY. 02/08/2024 (August 2nd) is converted...
    4 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

    IBM RPA Server - Support for SQL Server 2025

    Some customers are upgrading their Windows Server environment to the latest version, Windows Server 2025, which is currently not supported by our solution. This limitation is blocking their deployment plans, as they cannot install the IBM RPA serv...
    8 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 2

    Allow BAI updates through Intermedidate Tracking Event in Service Flows

    We can currently using tracking groups to send telemetry to BAI in Business Process flows, but the same capability is not available in lower level service flows.
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Make the administrative functions web-enabled

    Content Collector (ICC) currently requires administrators or operations specialists to remote desktop directly to the servers to create/update/execute task routes and to gather logs. If the administrative interface was web-enabled, this would redu...
    almost 3 years ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Planned for future release

    Add selector validation to commands

    Include a button to validate the selector in commands that use selectors. This greatly facilitates debugging.
    4 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

    Possibility to customize security configuration privileges

    As a business user with law requirements to keep information for specific period of time we want to make sure that information is safe from deletion. Right now, REST API "delete case" is configured so user who has manage privilege on a case role i...
    about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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