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

    Add REST/API equivalent for BPMSetECMServerProperties in CP4BA

    Customers migrating from traditional BAW to CP4BA containers currently do not have a supported automated way to manage ECM server properties for process application snapshots. Traditional BAW provides the BPMSetECMServerProperties wsadmin command,...
    5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Enhance Project Security Administration: Audit Timeline/Stream Entries and Add Immutable Closed Date Field for Change Activities

    Business Justification / Use Case: Our organization relies on automated CI/CD pipelines, governance metrics, and integration scripts that sync with IBM ODM via REST APIs and java libraries. These automations rely heavily on timestamps (such as las...
    15 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

    Rediscover option for external services

    If an external service is created based on the discovery of a Java, REST, or Web Service, a rediscover button is essential. This button would enable the updating of the methods associated with that service or defined object structure without the n...
    8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Future consideration

    Online Backup of CP4BA deployment

    Currently we cannot perform online backup in CP4BA, We have Fusion recipes but those are not taking complete backup of the CP4BA namespace. It will be great if online backup of CP4BA namespace can be made possible. The online backup tool for Cp4BA...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Future consideration

    Add official support for Apache Kafka 4.x (including 4.1.1) in IBM ODM Decision Server Runtime.

    Currently, IBM ODM 9.5.0.1 includes a Kafka client version 3.9.1 and is officially supported only against Kafka 3.x environments per the published compatibility matrix. Upgrading Kafka infrastructure to version 4.1.1 (e.g., IBM Event Streams 4.1.1...
    6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

    Hybrid Solution Fixed Content Storage (Retention) with Advanced Storage Area (Staging)

    Enhance fixed content device storage to utilize advanced storage areas for staging vs a localized path / file storage location as currently designed. This would utilize the streaming aspects of advanced storage, eliminating local operating system ...
    10 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 2 Future consideration

    Support direct upgrade from CP4BA 24.0.1 to CP4BA 26.0.0 on Openshift

    We moved to BAW 24.0.1 traditional because it was the first version in which process instance migration from traditional to containers was possible. Since we wanted to move to containers quickly we did not wait for the 25.0.0 release. After we hav...
    7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

    Decouple BAW and CPE due to licensing issue

    Currently, it is not possible that Process Portal to be used (without repository - CPE) in a CP4BA environment, as it is tightly coupled currently. The operator configures CPE URL, its credentials, its connection information as part of the BAW pod...
    11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

    Cp4ba Product related feture request

    In traditional IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW), administrators can monitor the health status of processes and services through the Process Monitor tab in the Process Admin Console for each jvm in cluster. This capability provides a centrali...
    about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

    Glossary Bulk Delete Feature

    Currently, there is no option to bulk delete a glossary item that is in use. If a glossary value is referenced across multiple process flows and activities. For example, used 100 times across 20 processes, the administrators must manually navigate...
    about 2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

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