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

    Finding toolkit references/usage in Process Application

    We have several Process Applications in our environment with > 15 toolkit dependencies. When we want to upgrade or remove any unneeded toolkit dependencies, there is no efficient way to check whether a process application is referencing or usin...
    about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    IBM RPA - Web Recorder - Not able to download the extension file

    We request that the Web Recorder.CRX file be added to the IBM Passport Advantage portal or included with the IBM RPA client installer. Currently, the Web Recorder extension is only available for installation via the Google Chrome Web Store. Howeve...
    8 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

    Using outdated JavaScript libraries

    The application uses outdated JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities: AngularJS v1.8.4 CVE-2022-25844: Angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) CVE-2025-2336: AngularJS Incomplete Filtering of Special El...
    8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

    Excessive information disclosure by the IBM BAW diagnostic endpoint

    It is recommended to restrict access to the /sync/api/configurations/ping endpoint to trusted IP addresses or administrative accounts only, or to disable it entirely in production environments if it is not operationally required.
    8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Dangerous CSP policy in the application

    We recommend using nonce ( https://content-security-policy.com/nonce/ ) or hash ( https://content-security-policy.com/hash/ ) mechanisms for scripts loaded by the application.
    8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

    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...
    over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Allow Marking Sets to Support Boolean Property Values

    Allow Marking Sets to use Boolean properties (true/false) as drivers for applying markings (e.g., IsConfidential, ContainsPII, LegalHold). Today this requires workarounds (string “Y/N”, 0/1, custom rules), which breaks type-safety and increases ma...
    8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Add GraphQL support to create and manage FileNet Marking Sets (and Markings)

    We are using the FileNet GraphQL API to industrialize (automate) Object Store provisioning and configuration via CI/CD across multiple environments. We recently discovered that GraphQL does not allow creating/managing Marking Sets and Markings, wh...
    8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    IBM should define a migration path from BAI Standalone to CP4BA

    BAI Standalone is intended for clients with e.g. BAW Traditional. Mid Term, also these clients will consider to move their BAW applications from Traditional to CP4BA. At that time, IBM should be able to propose a path to consolidate the applicatio...
    8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Under review

    Request a configurable option to disable drag-and-drop in ICN.

    Request to add a configurable option to disable the drag-and-drop feature in ICN. This is intended to prevent business users from unintentionally moving folders.
    almost 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

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