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

    BAMOE Canvas application integration with Azure DevOps repositories.

    Currently BAMOE 9 mentions GIT support only for GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Cloud. Adding Azure DevOps repositories as the provider option will provide customers with additional option and flexibility.
    over 2 years ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Future consideration

    Officially add Azure SQL to the list of supported Database

    Azure SQL Database is the Cloud equivalent of Microsoft SQL Server (it uses the same core SQL Server database engine but is offered as a fully managed cloud service PAAS)Customer who wants to migrate their Microsoft SQL Server to the Cloud are lik...
    7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    Enable the Content Collector SharePoint API to leverage Graph Site Selected permissions to isolate access to individual sites instead of across the entire tenant to minimize risk exposure.

    We have a sharepoint list and script that allows App APIs a certain permissions level. If ICC Azure App can leverage graph API site selected permissions, we could minimize access to only the sites we grant access to.
    about 1 year ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Not under consideration

    Chatbot data source for Dashboard

    The Dashboard feature of IBM RPA does not have a dedicate data source for chatbots. Creating dashboards for chatbots that use guided user interaction (i.e. limited options for the user) is simple enough, just using counters is enough. For chatbots...
    about 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Please include folder manipulation in the FTP commands

    It is currently not possible to create or delete folders with the IBM RPA FTP commands and this is something very basic that other tools like Automation Anywhere v11 have. When we are working with a file server, the need to manipulate folders is e...
    over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Preventing Multiple Concurrent Openings of the Same Task in IBM Process Portal

    when a user opens a task in Process Portal, it is still possible to open that same task again in another tab or browser window. If there is a built‑in configuration, setting, or recommended approach that allows user to restrict a task to only one ...
    7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

    Create new data groups with OR condition on BAI

    The inability to create a new data group with OR instead of AND prevents the display of all the data on the dashboard make it impossible to "merge" data when using multiple tracking ids. We need a way to either merge tracking ids data or just crea...
    about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Under review

    Determine file types by extension instead of mime type

    We got to know that latest versions of BAW support file determination based on mime type instead of the extensions as it was in BAW V19 versions. and this has been clarified by IBM Support in PMR - TS019929377. Requesting the team to restore the f...
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Needs more information

    ACCE shouldn't pull the entire Isolated Region configuration initiating a Workflow Search

    When a CPE environment has a lot of objects (queues, rosters, event logs, etc.) in an Isolated Region, initiating a new Workflow Search in ACCE will take a long time. This is not noticeable when a smaller number of objects exist, but gets exponent...
    almost 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

    Move token in Process Inspector

    Actually tokens on a BPD only can be moved by REST-API.First you have to get the execution tree, search for the token- and target-step-id. Build a new REST-request with this information... Operators should have the possibility to move token on a g...
    over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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