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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 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...
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

All ideas

ICCSAP client-side encryption

The client is currently using ICCSAP on AIX and Storage Protect. Customers require the ability to secure data. Currently, it is not possible to do client-side encryption. For API clients, encryption requires flagging when opening SP connection whi...
about 3 years ago in Content Collector for SAP 0 Future consideration

Add SharePoint Support to Cloud based storage options

SharePoint allows managing files, and content collaboration for teams and organization across Microsoft 365. This product integration support is for future and existing RPA customer, who would like to use RPA to streamline their business operation...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

Provide feature to mount volume from the management Console helm Chart

The management Console helm chart in BAMOE 9.3.1 does not provide featute to mount volume when deplying using the provided helm chart.
6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

Want to edit default Process property - Risk

want to amend/edit the options as per their Banking need. so the requirement is to enable the edit option for the existing default Risk property, so they can amend the categories to align with their Bank’s standards. Risk is a default system prope...
6 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Functionality already exists

Remove hardcoded Operator-node affinity for temporary setup Pods to support standard OpenShift workload isolation

Summary of the Enhancement Modify the CP4BA Operator so that it no longer hardcodes node affinity to its own host node when deploying temporary pods (used for PVC mounting and JDBC driver updates) into the operand namespace. The temporary pod shou...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Customizable Export Word Template

A customizable Word template within Blueworks Live would provide significant value, as each project or process document may require adjustments to meet stakeholder expectations. If the template were modifiable, users could incorporate additional e...
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Add Spring Boot 3 as a supported runtime for business services

We would like to use spring boot 3 as the runtime for the process and decision services.

CP4BA Case client not responsive in mobile browsers

On CP4BA 21.0.3,the case client is not responsive in mobile browsers.The project is developed for thousands of pepople in the company. The CU is clamoring for the mobile browser support for CP4BA Case Client.Please share the schedule to implement ...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ask for required input when bot is executed from Launcher

When a bot has inputs and is running unattended, the control center will request parameters, but when the bot is running unattended through the Launcher, there is no way to request parameters.
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Vault Integration for Postgres RDS Creds in BAW on Container

Customer: Discover Financial Services Product: Business Automation Workflow on Containers version : 22.x onwards Discover Financial Services Design Pattern is to have postgres credentials in vault and pods can fetch the credentials through init co...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration