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,

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  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...
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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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    BAW to support MS SQL Always On Availability feature

    BAW to support the MS SQL Always On Availability. this is critical functionality with benefits for High Availability and in replicating environments to the DR site.
    over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

    Support JWT token authentication for BAW Container

    Support JWT token verification for BAW Container On BAW VM version, TAI feature of Traditional WAS can be used for JWT token verification, need the same for BAW container version
    over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    Support SSO SPNEGO web authentication for BAW container

    Support SSO SPNEGO web authentication for BAW container
    over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    Re-assignment of Work items in Bulk

    User/role should be able to reassign BPM workflow items in bulk for other users/roles, the same as it's in: [Case Features (Case Manager) - How to reassign tasks (By code) | BPM, Workflow, and Case (ibm.com)|https://community.ibm.com/community/use...
    over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

    Display user who completed task in multi-instance loop

    When a task is a multi-instance loop with a complex flow condition, there is no distinction between whether the task was closed by the system or the user, because in both cases the Process Inspector indicates the system as the person who closed th...
    9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Ability to use cp4a-prerequisites.sh for multiple runtime instances

    Deploying multiple runtime instances in single namespace would be a common use case for CPBA - BAW runtime environments. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0.0?topic=cbawrws-optional-configuring-multiple-instances-business...
    about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

    Enhancement Request: Support for Viewing Large Excel Documents in IBM Content Navigator 3.1.0 (CP4BA 24.0.0.x)

    Summary: Requesting enhanced support for previewing large Excel (.xlsx) documents within IBM Content Navigator using the Daeja ViewONE viewer. Problem / Business Need Currently, large Excel documents do not render properly in ICN using Daeja ViewO...
    4 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

    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...
    9 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

    Support multiple ICCSAP Instances for Container deployment

    The ICCSAP Deployment on Containers shall support installation of multiple ICCSAP Instances. All those ICCSAP Instances shall be managed by a single Content Navigator deployment, as this is the situation also in Non-Container On-Prem deployments c...
    almost 3 years ago in Content Collector for SAP 0

    Content Navigator Configuration & Deployment tool support on Shared Network Drive

    Customer has an architectural requirement to install and deploy Content Navigator on Shared Network Drive which is not a supported method until now.
    almost 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

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