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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 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...
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

All ideas

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Decision Table Precondition – Unused Variable Warning Flag Enhancement

If you have unused variables in an action rule it causes a warning and underlines the variable informing the developer of the issue. With a Decision Table if you have unused variables that are created in the preconditions tab they do not cause war...
over 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Customer wants to be able to sign documents from Content Naviagtor

Currently Davita has to use DocuSign for all signatures and every signature has a cost. If there was a way to include a signature option with a custom plugin or with Daeja, this could save the customer having to pay for every signature.
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Functionality already exists

Support for SharePoint Subscription Edition

As detailed reports for ICC for MSP (Content Collector for Microsoft SharePoint 4.0.1.16 - Detailed System Requirements) does not list SharePoint Subscription Edition, I opened a support case (TS020807717) where I was told that currently IBM does ...
4 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 1 Functionality already exists

Management Console to provide roles and proper user segregation based on oidc authentication

Currently management console doesn't provide any roles. Any user once having access to management console can perform any action as there are no roles like in business central. Without proper role segregation and access management its not quite a ...
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 1 Planned for future release

Request for BAMOE UI framework

Request for BAMOE UI framework, just like Pega UI framework. All the bpm products provide a framework for user interface like ibm baw [coaches] and all products. This feature is currently lacking in bamoe and user randomly creates a framework usin...
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Under review

Need custom base image, passthrough configuration for BAMOE CANVAS

Our organization needs canvas jdk to be changed. Also, all the images provided by IBM use edge termination on OpenShift. We want pass through configured for all the images. We had discusses this already with support and the ibm cnosultants working...
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Planned for future release

Ability to change email addresses of users in a list

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

I would like for CP4BA routes to be able to use OpenShift platform certificates instead of requiring custom certificates with keys

In my environment, the platform team are allowed to use long duration certificates, and have configured one for the OpenShift platform certificate and AWS load balancer used by our Cloud Pak for Business Automation install. We need to use custom c...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 6 Planned for future release

In WorkflowCentre, there is a requirement where process instance variables need to be updated based on events sent from external services.

Requirement where process instance variables need to be updated based on events sent from external services. For this, the event subprocess functionality can be used. However, when using Event subprocesses, the correlation variable picks up the va...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Search Functionality: Allow the user to return to the searched list after opening a model to review

Today we complete a search and then have to complete the full search over again every time we go into a blueprint to look at it. We need the ability to return to the search results after opening an item from the search list without having to start...
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release