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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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Make the FileNet local groups feature available on BAW.

The customer has hierarchy tasks created and distributed on FileNet that doesn’t replicate on BAW. The idea is to import/use the existing local groups to have a better control of the users and roles. In the case of an AD failure or expressive chan...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Future consideration

Feature to monitor and rank the most accessed documents.

The customer needs a report from the most accessed document for marketing, model creation and quality auditing. Right now, the only event monitoring we have doesn’t seem to register when a user opens a document and the deep event monitoring, we ha...
8 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 2 Functionality already exists

Mask P8admin display name.

The customer needs an easy way to change the display name of P8admin for systemic tasks due to a security rule of never displaying admin users. In the case of a security breach, by having an admin user named in the system will make it easier for h...
8 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Functionality already exists

Content Platform Engine Storage Area Metric Count Anomalies Correction Script

During ingestion and deletions we often see miscounts in the storage area metrics, leading to for instance negative counts in a storage area if swept content from an area to another area (change of device type, migration to object storage). We hav...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

OCR engine is not picking up special characters such as umlaut or tilde.

Customers would like the OCR A or OCR S engine to be able to recognize umlauts for pronunciation and tilde. Example: Ä – make the sound “eh” or “ê” without gliding into the sound “ey”; Ö – make the sound “ê” and purse your lips into an O shape; Ü ...
4 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 4 Functionality already exists

Support for bulk import of Java classes using "Import Java Classes" option in BAMOE 9.

Having a lot of Java classes (in thousands) available dependencies for DMN requires importing each class indiviually using "Import Java Classes" option.
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Under review

Process - Clear data

After development and testing could have a button to clear all data of process, to go into production with no values
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Email actions such as 'imail' and 'Ewsmail' should have the ability to specify mailbox in case the account has multiple mailboxes.

The feature will help to specify the mailbox in case the account has multiple mailbox. This feature will give the flexibility of selecting the required mailbox.
8 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Multiple selected cell formatting in Rule Designer Decision Table

Currently, in Rule Designer, Decision Table(Legacy Editor) formatting options are limited to applying styles to whole table, a column or sing cell. it can be inefficient when we need to adjust the format of multiple cells at once. it would be bene...
12 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Not under consideration

IBM FileNet CPE Option to Detect and Split-On-Upload and Merge-On-Download Large Files - Parallelize and Improve Upload/Download Performance

Content sizes continue to grow due to rich media like audio recordings, video recordings, large data and/or logging files, videos with transcriptions, documents with many pages including images and embedded content. An idea for IBM FileNet Content...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration