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).


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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
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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...
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All ideas

    Possibility to reassign claimed tasks for Team members, not only managers

    Actually only team managers are able to reassign tasks that are allready claimed.Team members should be able to reassign tasks belongs to their teams, without having extensive manager rights.This should be also work for dynamic adhoc teams (create...
    about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Support of Mysql 8.4

    The banking sector client has contacted us, stating that MySQL 8.0.22 will reach EOL by September 2025, and they wish to upgrade to MySQL 8.4, including PAM.
    7 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Planned for future release

    Need IBM content manager V8.7 be integrated with IBM content Assistant to support AI in document's content

    We are using IBM content manager V8.7.0 on our developed applications Using CM APIs. Our business needs to use AI on searching on the document's contents and ask questions. I found a product call content assistant they said it is working with IBM ...
    7 months ago in Content Manager (CM8) 1 Future consideration

    Support BAW Designer for CNCF

    Business Automation Workflow has been made available on CNCF Kubernetes clusters. However, it's nowhere documented that this does not cover the development environment (workflow center). For consistency, clients ask for a CNCF version of the devel...
    over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    Possibility to integrate Business Automation Workflow with Grafana

    Grafana is a visualization tool that turns data from multiple sources into interactive dashboards. It’s used for monitoring, analysis and real time alerting. We would like to integrate this with BAW product to enhance Support Team experience by ge...
    7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Adding the ability for the BPM File Dropzone control to upload files to FileNet

    We have a situation that our customer moving from usinr BPM Embedde Object store to IBM FileNet Oject store and they were usinf BPM File Dropzone control now they need the same control to upload to FileNet and we found that it only works for BPM D...
    7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    There should be a feature to limit the number of workitems that can be created in a Case Client In-Basket.

    There is pagination feature of maximum of 50 workitems per page in the In-basket. The performance of the In-Basket can be degraded when there are tens of thousands of workitems in the In-Basket. To improve the performance, there should be a limit ...
    almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Future consideration

    IBM BPM/BAW must be compliant with tmforum provided standard openAPI.

    IBM being a member of tmforum (https://www.tmforum.org/open-apis/) and many clients adopting standard set by tmforum all the product should be able to consume swagger files provided by tmforum community. However IBM BPM is not able to parse it. Pl...
    almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Bring back the right-click option to the Click Windows Command

    This feature has been removed in the latest IBM RPA offering of 21.0.2 without a suitable replacement.
    about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Configurable option in the Datacap Application Manager for record keeping

    Datacap statistics - When you process documents, Datacap tasks gather statistics that are related to each batch job and saves them in the Engine database of the application.This should be a configurable option in the Datacap Application Manager wh...
    about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

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