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

    Re-assignment of Work items in Bulk

    User/role should be able to reassign BPM workflow items in bulk for other users/roles, the same as it's in: [Case Features (Case Manager) - How to reassign tasks (By code) | BPM, Workflow, and Case (ibm.com)|https://community.ibm.com/community/use...
    almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

    Allow developers to format script code using CTRL + F

    When writing JS code within Process Designer there is no possibility to format code using shortcut like CTRL + F. The only way to format is to copy code to other code editor, format it and then copy paste it back to Process Designer. There should ...
    5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

    Support inflight instance migration from BAW to CP4BA for Microsoft SQL Server

    As per CP4BA v24.0.1 documentation, there is support for instance migration from BAW to CP4BA. However, this feature comes with a limitation that it is supported only for DB2 database. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0....
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

    Enable vulnerability scanning for CP4BA capabilities with WAS Automation platform

    IBM WAS Automation is very effective to keep us ahead of the vulnerability scanning on IBM Websphere and apply fixpacks to fix those. it would be really great if all CP4BA capabilities such as P8, BAW etc. can be covered under the same platform fo...
    about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

    Sorting Document classes in Datacap Desktop Batch view

    List of document classes in Datacap Desktop Batch view are not sorted in alphabetical order. There is no configuration or settings available to do this in existing Datacap Desktop environment.
    over 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

    Enable User to Assign a Name when using the reassignTo JS API to prevent the usage of "Temporary Group" as the display name.

    Tasks created via a Team Filter Service are provided custom names for ex: "The Analyst Team", or "Level 1 Processors". However, after a reassign is done via the JS API TWTask.reassignTo. BPM Just always creates an adhoc group with DISPLAY_NAME as ...
    about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Allowing Custom Cache Expiry Settings for CMIS in BAW

    Currently, the cache timeout for CMIS object type hierarchies in IBM BAW is hardcoded (1 hour in internal CMIS). This leads to significant delays (3.5–4 minutes) when the cache expires and is regenerated—especially in solutions with a large number...
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    Need a logout API for all components of CP4BA to programatically logoff a given user.

    Customer is using IBM Verify for Authentication and Authorization. They are using SSO. They need to provide a global logout option, when the user clicks on this global logout, the user should be logged off from all the applications, including all ...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 8 Not under consideration

    In WorkflowCentre, there is a requirement where process instance variables need to be updated based on events sent from external services.

    Requirement where process instance variables need to be updated based on events sent from external services. For this, the event subprocess functionality can be used. However, when using Event subprocesses, the correlation variable picks up the va...
    almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Readiness and Liveness Probe failures should show detailed explanation about issues at info level logs

    Readiness and Liveness Probe failures should show detailed explanation at info level logs, It should show why it is failing/what component of that check is failing? etc. This must be implemented on all CP4BA deployments and stateful sets. But it i...
    10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

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