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:

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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

    CMOD - Parameter to turn on the Strict Carriage Control Validation in AFP Documents

    Update - 8/13/2025 See attached email Related ticket https://w3.ibm.com/tools/caseviewer/case/TS019780232 Original description Since CMOD v10.5, stricter validation for carriage control (CC) on AFP documents has been introduced. For example, blank...
    about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

    Comando para converter XML para tabela

    Assim como temos um comando para converter JSON para tabela, necessitamos de um comando para converter XML para tabela. Temos uma alta demanda para esse comando pois utilizamos muito o XML. Translated : Just as we have a command to convert JSON to...
    almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Federated Process portal task list refresh on events

    Currently, the federated tasks list for work or any saved search is refreshed periodically (default: 60 seconds). This behavior is causing confusion for customers, as they are unsure whether their tasks are being completed until they manually refr...
    almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

    Display error messages in deployment report

    During deployment time, if ruleset generation or deployment failed, for example GBRED0040E as a result of variable not initialized, the trace is shown in workspace log, not in Rule designer nor deployment report. The deployment report indicates "A...
    over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

    Enabling Task Routes should execute on schedule without restarting services

    Today, when a task route needs to be modified, the recommended approach by IBM is to restart services. This requires an elevated service account to perform this action and cost time. However, it has been proven in testing that we can modify a task...
    over 3 years ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Not under consideration

    Relates to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DCAP-I-359...

    Relates to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DCAP-I-359, From Datacap PM, this should be Viewer's feature, directed to open ER/idea under product viewer. This feature is requested on behave of ST-New STATE OF NEW JERSEY While in Datacap scan or verify U...
    7 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted

    Add a feature for Datacap to handle Kerberos failover without falling back to NTLM, ensuring authentication remains on Kerberos in cross‑forest setups.

    In distributed enterprise environments with cross‑forest domain trusts, Datacap currently connects to servers in different domains through IP, which indicates it is using NTLM authentication. NTLM is less secure and often restricted by organizatio...
    7 months ago in Datacap 1 Not under consideration

    Able to remove filters from process page in dashboard page

    Complicated rules on which filters can apply where - eg. Across to the dashboard We must go back and forward to apply filters in process and dashboard rather than being able to remove them in dashboard if they were set in process
    over 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Planned for future release

    More dashboard elements allowed

    Currently only 8 dashboard elements are allowed we should be able to have more like our competitors do
    over 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Functionality already exists

    Add capability to read only unread emails in a folder using ReadMail command

    Currently, the ReadMail command processes all emails in a specified folder without the ability to filter for only unread messages. A good feature for the ReadMail command is to include a parameter that allows filtering to only unread emails.
    about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Submitted

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