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
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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

    Add API Key as a Permission in Zen Access Control

    In the current implementation every user who is able to logon to Zen is able to generate an API token. We would like to prevent it for group of users. Disabling it for ALL users is a problem for admin users and automation scripts where we would li...
    3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Improve performance of version deletion for document version series with a very large number of versions

    Current Functionality: When a version is deleted through the Content Platform Engine (CPE), the server does the following work for each version: It locks and fetches the version from the DocVersion table, then looks up replica and federation depen...
    about 3 hours ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Provide a supported non-containerized deployment model for BAMOE platform components

    Overview and Problem Statement Several BAMOE customers have indicated that container-based deployment requirements are creating barriers to adoption/migration to BAMOE v9. While BAMOE is cloud-native, some enterprise customers operate under securi...
    about 6 hours ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x 0 Submitted

    Edit services client - Enable SSO when IBM SAML IDP server

    Hi, the business users have to sign in again when opening Edit Service Client, sometimes each hour. How to use the SSO mechanism with Edit services Client when the company authentication is configured with CP4BA (IBM SAML IDP server with ISVA). Th...
    1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Enable Relative Date Selection in IBM Content Navigator Search

    Currently, IBM Content Navigator allows users to perform searches using fixed date ranges (e.g., specific start and end dates). However, there is no built-in functionality to support relative date selection (e.g., "Last 7 days," "Last 30 days," "T...
    2 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

    Provide BAMOE Management Console as a Standalone Executable JAR

    We would like BAMOE Management Console to be made available as a standalone executable JAR, in addition to the existing container-based distribution. In our enterprise environment, the use of Docker/container images is restricted or blocked due to...
    2 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.4.x 0 Submitted

    Add mpMetrics-1.1 (MicroProfile Metrics) to FNCM Runtime Images to Enable OpenTelemetry JDBC Datasource Monitoring on Liberty

    Customers running FNCM on IBM Liberty are unable to monitor JDBC Datasource metrics via OpenTelemetry because the required Liberty feature mpMetrics-1.1 (MicroProfile Metrics 1.1) is not included in the FNCM container runtime images (CPE, GraphQL,...
    about 1 month ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Workflow Solutions Catalogue: Approved Once, Deployed Anywhere

    Government Agencies frequently need to implement case workflow solutions to address specific business problems, but each new solution requires significant time and effort to design, build, and approve from scratch. This idea proposes a Workflow So...
    14 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Submitted

    Nested type mapping field support in fncm_* indices

    Content cortex supports CBR only on String property definitions. If we use OpenSearch as indexing server, through Custom Text Indexing Preprocessor we can add virtual indexing fields but of only text type. But OpenSearch supports more mapping fiel...
    22 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

    Provide a supported, conflict-free SAML/OIDC SSO integration for IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) with PingFederate

    Product / Component: IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) — Security / Single Sign-On Affected version(s): v24.0.1 on WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5.31 Environment: [Traditional WAS ND cell / on-prem Linux — "8.10 (Ootpa)"] Identity Provider...
    7 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

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