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

    Request for Jakarta EE 10 compatible build of IBM ODM Decision Center's dbdump tool

    The Decision Center dbdump web application is currently not compatible with Jakarta EE 9 or Jakarta EE 10 runtimes, as it is built against Java EE / Jakarta EE 8 APIs (javax.* namespaces). In environments where Jakarta EE 10 is mandated as a platf...
    5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Is a defect

    Search and Replace in Documentation mode

    Add the ability to search and replace text within the Documentation view while editing a blueprint. This should prompt to make changes in activities and all supporting documentation similar to a word processor. This could not be satisfied by the G...
    almost 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    Change position of start events

    In case a process flow contains more than one start event within ONE swim lane, it would be useful if the position of each start event could be changed vertically (NOT horizontal). This would reduce crossing flow lines and make process models more...
    over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    Git integration for Process App and Toolkit Exports

    Having a fully git integration, to use merge and pull requests outside of Process/Workflow Center is essential for working on different Workflow Centers. In huge organizations and also working from different organizations, it is necessary to have ...
    over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Remove Document from Content Assistant AI Index Through API

    Over time documents won't be in scope for your Content Assistant use case but there isn't a good way to remove them from the AI Index. If you could create a sweep and call an API to remove documents from the index that would be a good enhancement....
    about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

    Add Page Number to Content Assistant Java API and GraphQL

    Issue: When using the Content Assistant Java API and GraphQL in the response you don't get the page number for the document chucks that are returned. Not having a page number available means the end user has to open the document and do a find whic...
    about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

    Content Assistant Feedback API Needed When Using Java API and GraphQL

    Issue: When users are using Content Assistant through Navigator they can provide feedback (thumbs up, thumbs down and a comment) on the response of the chat feature. When using the APIs to integrate Content Assistant with a customer portal when yo...
    about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

    Improve IBM BPM CoachFlow logging by surfacing missing business object references and node execution metadata in a structured, user-friendly format.

    The current console logs in IBM BPM CoachFlow provide raw execution traces and warnings, such as missing references in business objects and node-level execution details. However, these logs are verbose and lack contextual grouping, making it diffi...
    9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Spring Upgrade to 6+ or remove Spring

    We have security vulnerabilities with current Spring version used in BAW Automation Workflow. Our goal is to have Spring Upgrade to 6+ or remove Spring
    5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    Enable validation of variable definitions at the time of saving Variable Sets

    Product: IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) Version: 9.0.0.1 Background / Problem Statement: Currently, validation of variables defined in Variable Sets is only performed during RuleApp build. There is no validation at the time of saving or co...
    5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

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