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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).


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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
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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Preserving sequence of toolkits when importing process apps

One of the steps during the migration is exporting all the process applications from existing process center on IPas (Workflow Center on Traditional WAS) and importing them into a new / empty process center on container / OpenShift platform (CP4BA...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Task to be visible to all actors (team of actors) till action taken by any one of them

The customer is using BAW for multiple processes. They have team of actors (approvers) at every step in the flow. Current behavior: When any actor from the team, opens the article from the TODO list, the article disappears from the TODO list of ot...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow the approver in the flow to take action on bulk of items

The customer is using BAW for multiple tasks. About 300 articles are created every day and may existing articles are edited. The flow has many approvers and one of them being the taxation team. Articles created by every department will have a taxa...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Bulk creation / edit of article - Each article triggers a flow

Similar to transaction systesms (like bank), where they allow us to download a template, fill the template with details for multiple transactions and upload in one go. This ends up triggering multiple transactions. The customer is using BAW for pr...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Task mining - dashboard - the ability to download a file with errors

Task mining - dashboard - the ability to download a file with errors If errors occur during recording with a recorder, there should be an option to generate and download a file with errors. The file should be available for download for more than 2...
2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Enhance ICC FSC Metadata File Collector to process JSON metadata files

We have a use case to feed Content File and JSON metadata File as a pair to the ICC task route where we wanted to map the JSON attributes to Content File and archive it to FileNet Content Manager repository, right now the out of the box functional...

Revert input/output variable mapping to classic view to remove extra steps

Users are facing challenges with BAW 23.0.1's new variable mapping process, finding it cumbersome due to extra clicks and complexity, especially in complex projects. The classic mapping offered quicker, more straightforward access to variable usag...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 7 Planned for future release

Need to move xom-libraries folder in order to deploy the files that are built using Maven build command

Context: This is regarding the build command using maven. The customer is on 9.0/ Windows. He has multiple projects he used to build with eclipsec. But after upgrading to 9.0 he was trying build command. The customer used maven to build the sample...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

More granular permission management

The current functionality does not allow a user to select only the operation to be published without granting access to targets, servers, and the administration tab. Currently, the only way to enable a user to select an operation is by assigning t...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Not under consideration

Support for Tracability, OpenTelemetry and Instrumentation to be able to use tools like Jaeger,Kiali

There is need for tracing global transaction/request ID that starts with the platform UI and gets propagated to the various layers/components of CP4BA so that one can follow the transaction. Our clients are using OpenShift Service Mesh ( Istio ) a...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Not under consideration