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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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Setting the order of fields on a step in a workflow instead of automatically sorting them alphabetically

In the Content Navigator step processor, the fields should be in the order defined in the workflow, so that the most important can be configured as part of the workflow. Eg. Customer Name, Customer Email, Address etc. appear in this order as per r...
over 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

Hide saved searches from All Searches node in Content Navigator Search

Workplace XT allows search templates to be hidden in Search view, while still allowing a user to find and execute them (assuming they have sufficient privileges). ICN saved searches (equivalent to WPXT search templates), on the other hand always d...
over 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

FileNet Salesforce Connector - Enhancement to “Add Document Dialog” page

They would like to set the default or preset value in each property on the page. This could be done using Property Defaults on Content Platform Engine. I mentioned that on the call yesterday however they would like to have these defaults / preset ...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Delivered

Need an option to hard delete a rule

Today when we delete a rule, it is a soft delete. It is marked as deleted and goes to recycle bin, which is fine. But there is no option If we want to delete a rule completly out of my system (remove fully from DB) at project level. We are looking...
over 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Delivered

Enhancement of where used functionality in Glossary

For each Glossary we have "where used" option which displays the list of artefacts that contains the specific glossary value. When we click on a particular process map it opens in the same page.
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Delivered

Removal of Struts Currently using in BPM & Websphere

Business Automation Workflow- The Process Admin console or portal is using Struts framework with higher vulnerabilities IBM BPM product should move out for other frameworks instead using Struts. WebSphere - The administrative console in WebSphere ...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Decision Center - Filter On Notification

In the Decision Center Business Console, if any text has been entered into the Filter box in the upper right corner, a visual message is displayed that the Filter is On.
over 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Delivered

Allow role-based security around ability to see Saved Searches in Process Federation Server

Allow role-based security on saved searches to only allow users to see searches for which they are authorized in Process Federation Server. Since we have many different processes and numerous saved searches implemented in BPM, we have the need to ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Removing the metadata from Rest API response

The Rest API response always has the metadata piece in it and there is no way for you to remove the metadata from the response like how you do for the parts. You should give another option below the parts checkbox to remove the metadata from the r...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

EUS support for CP4BA

Currently CP4BA doesn't support EUS policy and this restricts the deployment in the same cluster where other cloud paks are deloyed with EUS support.
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Delivered