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

    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...
    about 4 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    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

    Allow for autocorrect/grammar check.

    This would benefit everyone, because it is a small but powerful part of making the processes more sharp and professional. It is really not efficient to have to go through and manually change spellings of things because we can't click on the correc...
    10 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

    make the "at risk" calculations configurable in process portal

    Current behavior In Process Portal, the At Risk indicator is currently calculated using the following logic: At Risk = (Average Historical Time to Complete Task + Current Elapsed Time) > Task Due Date This approach depends on historical average...
    10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    New user name (LSW_USR_XREF.USER_NAME) should be updated if re-created regardless of upper and lower case changes.

    BAW manages user as case insensitive. So if re-creating user again with different case(ex. old='TESTUSER', new='testuser'), BAW treats new lowercase user as the same user as old uppercase user. We understand that this is working as designed, and n...
    almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    IBM needs to provide a method for IBM Content Collector (ICC) for SAP to enable SAML authentication with the State's IBM Verify IDP, currently ICC for SAP does NOT support SAML authentication methods.

    IBM Support and Dev have been engaged to troubleshoot with the customer. There are no known workarounds. ICC for SAP is working as designed but does NOT support URL encoding, which is required for SAML authentication with IBM Verify SaaS. This iss...
    10 months ago in Content Collector for SAP 1

    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...
    over 3 years ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Planned for future release

    The Edit services client isn't available on both two configuration modes : Citrix and normal (user physical workstation)

    The Edit services client and server isn't able to support the users deployed on a citrix infrastructure and others installed on physical workstation. In our infrastructure we have these two kind of client.
    10 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 2 Submitted

    Enhance the critical path calculation for a process with "exclusive gateway" from adhoc subprocess

    We got an issue after upgrading BAW from 21.0.3.1 to 24.0.0, that the Batch Modify button in Process Performance Dashboard shows disabled. Based on the investigation with BAW Dev Team, it seems specific to those type of processes with "exclusive g...
    10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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