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 7
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

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Add PostgreSQL as a supported relational database for Traditional (on-Prem) Content Manager (CPE) in addition to the Container release.

Adding PostgreSQL as a supported relational database would provide a low cost, open source option for the deployment of FileNet Content Manger and it is already qualified with the CPE container release.
about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 4 Delivered

log4j 1.x jar's support ended. Move jar versions to 2.15 and above

We recently found out that BAW uses log4j 1.x version which is unsupported version. We understand that log4j1.x jars are used in the product not vulnerable CVE-2021-44228 and it is vulnerable to CVE-2021-4104 if JMSAppender feature is used. Howeve...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Navigation to folders filled in from the document properties dialog

From IBM Navigator, when a document is filled in multiple folders, a user can go in the "document -> properties" dialog, in the "folders filled in..." tab to see all location where the document is filed. From this dialog/tab with the list of lo...
over 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

Create menu to open Screen Capture Tool while recording

Currently, only the PrtSc key opens the Screen Capture tool. This is not well supported with current VMware image environment for customer education. As a workaround, we must ask students to open the image in RDP and in fullscreen mode to send the...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Better debugging for BAW

Debugging has several shortcomings that need to be fixed. Otherwise, it is all but impossible to properly maintain your solution! 1) There is no debug for Client-Side Human Services, like there used to be for the older style Coaches.2) Service Deb...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Extend Process Federation Server /launchableEntities API with filter for "type"

In adoption of Process Federation Server (PFS) we are moving from current solution which leverages BPM API for ".../exposed/process" - a specific use of "/exposed/{type}" as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS8JB4/co...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Upgrade Integration Designer Eclipse platform to enable support for plugins like Git, Maven, Gradle, Spring...

I was considering creating PMR cause it's serious blocker for modern development. We use AdvancedOnly deployment for running large BPEL solution with lots of Java code. IID Eclipse platform is now ancient Eclipse 3.6.3 (released 2011) and that mea...
about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

To support installing multiple TOS with operator for baw container version

For case management, the case solution max property number is limited by database table max support column number, e.g. Oracle table max column is 1000. In our current situation, a case solution usually has hundreds properties, then one TOS can on...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Enable generation of swagger for any given bot in IBM RPA Studio

To enable easy integration between BAW and IBM RPA, BAW calls bots via REST apis. To ease this process, BAW needs swagger definitions of the bot to call. This swagger definition should be generated in studio based on the bot's input and output par...
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Update of Rules Designer to work in latest versions of Eclipse IDE

IBM Support Case Reference: TS003381904 The latest available version of the ODM Rules designer (8.10.3) does not work with the current versions of the Eclipse IDE (4.14 or 4.15). This is preventing our developers from updating their IDE environmen...
almost 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 3 Delivered

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