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 7
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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CRTINSTOND must work when CRTLIB or other CL commands are restricted

On some IBMi systems, customers restrict *PUBLIC to *EXCLUDE . This causes some CMOD for i functions to fail - like CRTINSTOND will not succeed if CRTLIB has *PUBLIC set to *EXCLUDE
7 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Delivered

Allow business managers to view and manage all the tasks for a given BAW solution

In the BAW documentation it is mentioned in the "Configuring in-baskets for roles" section that "You can assign this in-basket to a manager or supervisor role in addition to a personal in-basket" but there is also a note that says that from V20.0....
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Debug Breakpoints for Service Flows

When debugging a Service Flow, there is no way to set a breakpoint. For large complex flows, this means you need to go through potentially hundreds of steps to get to where you need to be, which can take a huge amount of time! Like any good develo...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

BAI should not index all decision events in the same ElasticSearch Index

All decision events are indexed by BAI FIlnt job in the same index mixing the data of multiple business domains where decisions are used. To differentiate the data from one domain to other the columns in the index are prefixed with the ruleapp and...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Delivered

Support additionalProperties in OpenAPI Spec

additionalProperties in the OpenAPI spec is not currently supported in BAW per the following documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/22.x?topic=30-restrictions-invoking-rest-api-service It would be very useful to have more of the OpenAPI sp...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

When a scheduled bot fails to run, have it create a failed job

It is not uncommon for scheduled bots to just not run. At times when it fails to run, no job will be created, and there is no indication that the scheduled job has failed since it just never ran. It could potentially be days before anyone realizes...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Adding Cases view in Workplace

In the IBM documentation it is stated that "Workplace brings together process, case, and workstream functions" but there is currently no Cases view which requires users to constantly navigate between Workplace and Cases. For the sake of consistenc...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Delivered

Enhancement Request for executing the acceleration api or acceleration tool of BAW in a better approach in Container Platform of GCP

Our customer is using BAW 22.0.2 in Container platform of Google Cloud. They found that, in their live system environment (i.e. container platform), the execution of the acceleration tool (i.e. restful api) will be failed if process instance is ru...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Enhance product licensing/setup experience

The product licensing/setup experience is an unintuitive process with frequent issues with activating/login/account creation.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Assign work task to group

Being able to assign work task to a group of users and not just to a named person
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Delivered

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