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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"Wait Download" command could download the filename instead of generating a random name

The "Wait Download" command could use the downloaded filename instead of a random name when the parameter is empty. Currently the system behavior is to generate a random name which can cause confusion when looking for the file in the folders, spe...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Planned for future release

Allow securing IBM Automation Foundation Kafka routes by customer-provided certificates

Customer is on 21.0.3 version and soon planning to upgrade to 24.0.0 version , in this case IAF will be replaced by CPfs. Need to check if asked problem will be resolved or not after upgrade ? ................................... Customer is using ...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Planned for future release

IBM BPM should support int64 format

In order to integrate with modern services (Blockchain/Hyperledger and a number of Watson services) using e.g. REST Outbound, IBM BPM should be able to support the int64 format for integer. This is an official Swagger format according to the Swagg...
over 9 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Planned for future release

Support of Mysql 8.4

The banking sector client has contacted us, stating that MySQL 8.0.22 will reach EOL by September 2025, and they wish to upgrade to MySQL 8.4, including PAM.
8 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x Planned for future release

Instance dates in PFS Portal

If you want to migrate Saved Searches from BAW to PFS and the SS uses date fields from instance, you cannot migrate the saved searches. Some of the fields that are usable out of the box in BAW saved searches are not usable as is in PFS saved searc...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Planned for future release

Role-level based Activity map and Social net

Data mapping is required when uploading CSV and creating processes. We can then assign the resources and roles associated with the activities. Activity map and Social net in "Resource mapping" will be displayed properly if data mapping is complete...
over 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining Planned for future release

Activity Type Icon overlaps activity label

When adding an Activity Type Icon to an Activity Box it can overlap activity labels.
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

Add an option in the CM Web Admin Plugin to properly set TRACELEVEL to -15 for support traces

There's currently no easy way to set the TRACELEVEL value to -15, which is often requested by L2, for the library server trace. The admin desktop client has this feature, but not the web admin plugin. It could be useful to have a "Support Trace" o...
8 months ago in Content Manager (CM8) Planned for future release

Improve Browser Debugger Support

The ability to debug Views is essential in non trivial Coach implementations. There are limitations as described in: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS8JB4_20.x/com.ibm.wbpm.wle.editor.doc/topics/tcf_viewdebughs.html The generated c...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Planned for future release

Change a non-conformant process variant to conformant directly in the Model conformance pane

When viewing non-conformant process variants in the Model conformance pane in the Model page, users should be able to change / reclassify a non-conformant process variant as conformant. As of now the only option to simulate this action is to "Crea...
over 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining Planned for future release

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