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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).


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
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...

All ideas

IBM ODM Helm Support for additional env variables

Support a configs that allows additional Environment Variables be added to helm without manual edit of Helm
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Swimlane actor fallback and recovery mechanism when stored user is no longer valid

Provide a fallback and recovery mechanism when a stored swimlane actor becomes invalid to prevent process instance failure. Description In BAMOE 8.x, swimlanes retain and reuse the actor (user) who previously completed a task within the same lane....
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Under review

When the rule property names are long, the user expects the details pane to adjust in width accordingly without having to resize manually

Our business users use Business console to managed and maintain their business rules. We have a sizable team of business users . An increasing feedback from the business users we have been receiving is their frustration on resize(expand) the rule ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Is a defect

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...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Add a special marker and disable manual user addition for the tw_allusers group in Process Admin Console of BAW

Currently, the tw_allusers group in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) is managed automatically by the system. All active users are automatically added to this group, and manual addition is unnecessary and misleading. However, the PAC interfac...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Retaining the Content Type for migrated documents.

We have implemented ICC-SharePoint with FileNet. We were able to migrate the SharePoint documents to FileNet successfully (with Leave item and Replace link). However we have noticed that the migrated document's Content Type gets changed to 'Migrat...
over 1 year ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 1 Planned for future release

Possibility to customize security configuration privileges

As a business user with law requirements to keep information for specific period of time we want to make sure that information is safe from deletion. Right now, REST API "delete case" is configured so user who has manage privilege on a case role i...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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

Provide a REST API for audit log per artifact type

As an admin, I need to be able to provide an auditor all the list of changes that were performed for a specified artifact type
11 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Ability to perform a pre-check activity as part of the governance process app or independent to a governance process

As a blueprint editor, I want to be able to finish working with a blueprint and start a review process outside of BlueworksLive. As an editor I want to finish editing a blueprint and have the ability to trigger an external system or application ...
11 months ago in Blueworks Live 3 Needs more information