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

    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...
    about 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 4 Not under consideration

    Export WebSphere Application Server Network Deployed Configurations to Container YAML

    Converting on premise WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Network Deployed (ND) configurations to Kubernetes supported container platform YAML requires manual collection of configurations like Data Sources, Name Spaces, Connection Factories, Enviro...
    over 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

    Enforce Server-Side Validation and Output Encoding for Upload Metadata to Prevent XSS

    Issue: The current implementation of the document upload functionality processes metadata parameters provided by the client without enforcing strict server-side validation. Fields such as PT_UPLOADED_DOC_TYPE, PT_BPM_TASK_ID, PT_ISSUANCE_DATE, and...
    5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    FixPack Installation Modularity

    Certain server components (e.g., RuleRunner) cannot be removed once the fixpack is installed, as the fixpack does not provide an uninstall wizard for individual components. ==> Impact: Reinstallation of all required components.
    5 months ago in Datacap 1 Not under 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...
    about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    As a companion to the Undo feature, have a Redo feature as well

    There are times that you want to quickly Undo a series of changes to see how they impacted the diagram, but then want to put them back. Snapshots don't facilitate this unless you happened to put a snapshot at the point you want to back to, but it'...
    almost 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

    Availability of Pluggable Variable Persistence (PVP) in BAMOE 9.3 or higher

    From the documentation page of BAMOE 9.3.0 we can see that Pluggable variable persistence is currently not supported [1] Are you planning to support it in future release? We are using it in our applications built on top of BAMOE 8.x When are you p...
    11 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

    Support Hot-keys to launch attended bots

    Support users to use hot-keys to start attended bot's they have listed in launcher. A Default Hot-Key for each bot should be managed by administrators and users should have the ability to overwrite it locally to fit personal needs.
    over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

    Make Library Server functionality closer to Oracle DB and not with externa procedures.

    When customers provider internal Oracle database services for multitenancy access, some restrictions prevent CM8 Library server to be configured. These restrictions are: ExtProc agent and its configuration not allowed Restriction with UTL_FILE pac...
    5 months ago in Content Manager (CM8) 0 Submitted

    Configurable LDAPS DNS Resolution Behavior for FileNet P8 (CPE)

    In FileNet P8 CPE domain directory configurations using LDAPS, connections fail when a DNS alias resolving to multiple A records is used. CPE resolves the alias into individual IP addresses and attempts LDAPS connections using those IPs. Certifica...
    5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

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