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 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

    Single Rule Designer for ODMoC, ODM for Developers and ODM Traditional

    When using ODM on Cloud, Rule Designer includes some additional capabilities connect to and ODM on Cloud instance. These features, prevent users to connect to a RES or Decision Center running locally our outside of the ODMoC. For this reason custo...
    over 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under 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...
    about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 2

    Missing track functionality from workflow center

    Workflow Center currently miss base functionality that exist in Process Center, making Process Center a necessity from developers even though Workflow Center is far superior in performance. For example, in our environment Process Center takes more...
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

    Support valueFrom: secretKeyRef / configMapKeyRef env var wiring in the CP4BA CR for data sources, code modules, task services, and ICN plugins.

    Use Case The CP4BA operator and its Custom Resource do not allow customers to bind container environment variables to individual keys inside a Kubernetes Secret or ConfigMap using the standard valueFrom: secretKeyRef / configMapKeyRef pattern. Thi...
    5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

    Enable Dynamic Snapshot Targeting for Internal Message Events and UCAs in Cross-Application Messaging

    Request to add the ability to dynamically specify target snapshot names when using "Sending Intermediate Message Event" components for cross-application messaging, similar to the snapshot targeting capability currently available in the Event Manag...
    5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Ability to Configure Custom Starting Values for Instance IDs and Task IDs

    Request for a configurable option that allows IBM BAW administrators to define custom initial values for Workflow Instance IDs and Task IDs. In the current IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) implementation, all environments start generating In...
    10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Process Admin: Prevent synchronizing users that return in user searches in BAW, BAStudio

    By default, all users returned from a user search are automatically added to the BAW database tables. This behavior can become problematic when a Process Admin user search returns a large number of users, resulting in unnecessary data being insert...
    10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

    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.
    almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

    BAW support for dynamic SSL configuration

    In previous versions, users could secure BAW services by using the supplied keystore. BAW 19.0.0.3 accidentally no longer makes use of Custom SSL configuration.The BAW product would significantly benefit from enabling dynamic SSL configuration for...
    over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future 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
    almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

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