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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).


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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
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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looking for a feature which it can trigger an email to respected owner name when you put any new comment @ Owner name for any process or approval flow

looking for a feature which it can trigger an email to respected owner name when you put any new comment @ Owner name for any process or approval flow It actually helps, as some times , people are not knowing that they need to review some comments...
1 day ago in Blueworks Live 1 Submitted

Workflow Process Service support on CNCF - No routes needed

Customer's infrastructure does not support the usage of "Routes" to externalize product end points. Customer is deploying CP4BA - Workflow Process Service pattern. Be able to deploy Workflow Process Service addresses the limitation as it could be ...
1 day ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Update BAMOE 8.x.x to use EAP 8.x.x

The goal is to update IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions (BAMOE) version 8.x.x to be compatible with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) version 8.x.x. Known issues in timer management: Issues have been identified in timer manag...
7 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Submitted

Enable Support for Passing webhookID as a Parameter in Capture Services Toolkit for ADP Integration

Currently, the capture-toolkit-1.0-master-full.jar does not allow passing a webhookID parameter when submitting documents to ADP. This forces all ADP callbacks to be sent to a single, static webhook URL in BAW, limiting flexibility for workflows t...
4 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Capability to have JWT authentication for BPM REST Endpoints as provider for consumer applications

Capability to have JWT authentication for BPM REST Endpoints as provider for consumer applications. Currently it is Basic Authentication but since majority of the enterprise are on more robust authentication patterns such as JWT, it will make more...
about 19 hours ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

CMOD Thick Client provide Active Session Timeout option

Currently OnDemand Windows thick Client provides setting for Inactive Session Timeout, but does not provide a setting for Active Session Timeout. On zOS, even after ARSSOCKD is cycled, a user who was connected to the server remained active and is ...
about 24 hours ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

Zen should have the feature to support Org based authentication

Currently in WAS, we have a feature to authenticate users at BPM using All Authenticated in Application's Realm. This looks up the LDAP repository with the base entry o=<Your Org Name as configured in LDAP> Looks, Zen does not have this feat...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Submitted

Create a new end point in the API to get all Groups and Users Data in just one call

We are looking the way to get in just one call to your API all the user data and the group data to work it in our side. we are currently using this call https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/blueworks-live?topic=blueworks-live-api
8 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Prevent Users from Modifying CMIS Queries in ECM Document List in IBM BAW

The ECM Document List component in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) dynamically generates CMIS queries to retrieve authorized case documents from IBM Content Platform Engine (CPE). However, penetration testing has revealed that users can int...
14 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Missing track functionality from workflow center

Workflow Center currently miss base functionality that exist in Process Center, making Process Center a necessity from developers even though Workflow Center is far superior in performance. For example, in our environment Process Center takes more...
12 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted