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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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Ideas

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Reduce or accelerate the reconciliation cycle for implementing changes in CP4BA

Detailed Description: Currently, in Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA), whenever changes are made to component configurations, it is necessary to wait for the reconciliation cycle to run automatically for the adjustments to take effect. Thi...
11 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Provide an ELK based log management solution as part of the base Business Automation Content Services on Cloud (BACSOC) as the current logging solution isn't practically usabe

Current Behaviour Currently the Bacsoc SaaS solution provides logs via a portal page named System Operations and provides facilities for retrieving logs from Navigator, Studio, Content Platform Engine, Content Search Services, Content Services Gra...
about 1 month ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Be able to track token consumption on a per-user basis for IBM Content Assistant

Being able to track token consumption on a per-user basis for IBM Content Assistant on-prem would be very valuable to their leadership. The leaders at Acuity Insurance would like to know the rate at which each authorized user is burning through th...
about 2 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Many DC projects must ingest mail from Microsoft 365. Today this requires custom scripts or generic IMAP/EWS workarounds that don’t support Graph-specific features (delta sync, throttling controls, large attachments, change notifications). This increases delivery time, fragility, and support costs.

Ship a first-class Microsoft Graph source connector with: Auth: OAuth2 (App-only client credentials) + delegated optional; tenant & conditional access friendly. Mailbox scope: user mailboxes, shared mailboxes, groups; include/exclude via filte...
2 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

GenAI Search Document Query Object

Provide an API that will allow for searching based on document properties and their values so the search can be incorporated into the GenAI Multi Doc process vs. having to query FileNet to get the document GUIDs and then call GenAI Multi Doc. This...
2 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

case-sensitive database support in IBM BAMOE

Requesting case-sensitive database support for both the versions, i.e., 8.0.5 and 9.2.1. We are currently using version 8.0.5 with SQL Server, and need the database to be case sensitivity enabled.
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 1 Under review

Enable auto-scaling of infrastructure in BACSoC/CP4BAaaS

Desire would be to allow auto-scaling for CP4BAaaS solutions (specifically BACSoC). This would allow for peak workloads to scale seamlessly without having to require maintenance windows to adjust for changing workloads.
4 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Add support for elasticsearch for full text indexing to Content Services on Cloud

This would allow customers who desire to use elasticsearch vs CSS to have that option within the IBM SaaS FileNet version (BACSoC)
4 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Add Suspend with SuspendUntil functionality for human tasks in BAMOE 9.2.x

We request the reintroduction of the suspend (with suspendUntil parameter) capability for human tasks in BAMOE 9.x. This feature, available in previous versions (e.g., RHPAM 7.x / BAMOE 8.x), allowed suspending a human task via API until a specifi...
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Future consideration

Replicate EventListener Lifecycle in BAMOE9.2

Hello, after talking with support they told us that the Task & Processes Lifecycle events are not the same in BAMOE8 and BAMOE9. This is the resume they sent to us: Summary of gap: Feature BAMOE 8.x (jBPM) BAMOE 9.x (Kogito) =================...
6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Future consideration