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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 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
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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Update Container Reference Architecture for CP4BA.

Our existing reference architecture for our container platform based CP4BA is 2 years old. Reference architecture is viewed as "table steaks" in terms of selling software. It is requested in EVERY RFP/RFI. It is often requested/required by our cli...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

Enhance new governance functionality

The new governance functionality is a great new feature that we were missing since we introduced BWL in our company. Nevertheless there are still some limitations that are holding us back from activating it. Current limitations: When activating th...
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Allow Users to Add a Custom PVC to the Workflow Process Service (WfPS) Component

Customer has a custom application that requires an absolute path to be specified. This is possible by mounting a custom pvc with the required mountPath. The requirement is to allow customers to add a PVC to the Workflow Process Service component. ...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

6Only editors & contributors or admins can copy spaces to other Blueworks Live accounts – would like “admins & editors” as an option in "Customization" tab

Only editors & contributors or admins can copy spaces to other Blueworks Live accounts – would like “admins & editors” as an option in "Customization" tab
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Ability to adjust the number case variants table limits on widgets

Nowadays, the case variant tables from the widgets perspective have a limit of 100 rows being show. If the user has 100+ case variants, they won't be able to see the whole table and all the percentages there. This idea is to make the limit adjusta...
25 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release

Ability to customize LogoutRequest xml for SSO (Public)

Some Identity Providers may not be able to handle Logout requests when used as SSO for IBM Process Mining. The idea is to have the ability to customize the LogoutRequest xml generated by the application to ensure that logouts are properly handled.
about 1 month ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Planned for future release

Support full Kafka protocol for event - key and header support missing

Our BAMOE 8.0.5 deployment on OpenShift is integrated with an external Kafka cluster. In the processes that are running in our BAMOE instance, tasks shall be used to send and receive Kafka messages, containing a message value and a specific messag...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 2 Planned for future release

Create a queue to allow multiple files uploads, optimizing the user's time.

IBM Process Mining should allow the upload of several CSV's at the same time (even if they are not uploaded simultaneously, the option to select at once all the files we want to upload would optimize the time of the analyst responsible for this ta...
6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release

Add Spring Boot 3 as a supported runtime for business services

We would like to use spring boot 3 as the runtime for the process and decision services.
2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 2 Planned for future release

Provision of Turbonomic Operator Resource Mappings for the Cloud Pak for Business Automation to allow automated resource management

IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management is used to dynamically manage IT resources to ensure application performance while avoiding infrastructure waste. Applying the Turbonomic Kubernetes Optimization use case to the Cloud Pack for Busines...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release