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

    Unable to delete the branched snapshots through Swagger API

    When attempting to delete branched snapshots using the Swagger UI, the operation fails with the following error: “Could not find the track with acronym: MigrationTrack.” However, the same snapshot deletion is successful when performed through the ...
    5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    ODWek: Duplicate ODServer objects

    ODServer initialization is an expensive operation. ODFolder initialization from that ODServer is also expensive. However, connection pooling is a recommended best practice when utilizing ODWek. What if we could initialize a single/few ODServer obj...
    almost 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 4 Not under consideration

    Support remote java application debugging for Decision Service

    With Classic Rule Projects, we were able to create a "Remote Java Application With Rules" in Rule Designer 's Debug Configurations, and this allowed the user to remotely debug java application with Rules, including by adding breakpoints inside the...
    over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    Calico Network Policy creation in BAW on Containers

    Customer: Discover Financial Services Product: Business Automation Workflow on Containers version : 22.x onwards BAW on Container product creates default kubernetes network policy not the calico network policy, Discover Financial Services Design p...
    almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Allow managing (delete, edit) object tables within an organization directly from the IBM Process Mining GUI.

    Object tables in IBM Process Mining are used to add contextual master data (such as vendors, materials, locations, or products) to projects, enriching process analyses with relevant business information. Currently, while users can create, append, ...
    10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2 Functionality already exists

    OpenSearch with CP4BA Filenet - Indexing and Search enhancements

    GDA is the new common document and archive platform for the belastingdienst. GDA uses OpenSearch instead of (or in addition to) Filenet DB queries when searching for documents. GDA functionality requires to search by any property - and business us...
    over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

    Return load error details through CMOD REST API calls

    Right now, when a file fails to load to OnDemand through the CMOD REST client, it returns a generic error message in the "status" field: Failed: Failed to commit Load. Please consult the System Log for additional information. RC = 2096 Message = T...
    over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

    It would be helpful to have the ability to access the case comment window and case property window simultaneously, enabling users to easily copy data from the case details page to the comment popup window.

    When a user opens the comment pop-up window from the case details or work details page, they should be able to access the property widget or documents tab and seamlessly switch between them. This functionality would enable users to easily copy inf...
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

    Native JSON Ingestion & Indexing

    Modern apps and event streams emit JSON. Today, teams must pre-flatten or convert JSON (e.g., to CSV/XML) before loading into CMOD, which adds brittle ETL steps, loses nested structure, and slows time-to-archive. Please add a JSON ingest path acro...
    10 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Future consideration

    Many DC projects must ingest mail from Microsoft 365. Today this requires custom scripts or generic IMAP/EWS workarounds that don’t support Graph-specific features (delta sync, throttling controls, large attachments, change notifications). This increases delivery time, fragility, and support costs.

    Ship a first-class Microsoft Graph source connector with: Auth: OAuth2 (App-only client credentials) + delegated optional; tenant & conditional access friendly. Mailbox scope: user mailboxes, shared mailboxes, groups; include/exclude via filte...
    10 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

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