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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:

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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,

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  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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AI Enhancements - BPMN guidance

Provide guidance on BPMN best practices in blueprints
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review

AI Enhancements - Evaluate process health and provide report (processes that have owners and do not have owners, last updated/stale, unpublished vs published maps)

AI Enhancements - Evaluate process health and provide reports (processes that have owners and do not have owners, last updated/stale, unpublished vs published maps)
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review

Governance workflow owner can't publish maps then delegate to another user (someone else needs to submit to publish so I can reassign)

Governance workflow owner can't publish maps then delegate to another user (someone else needs to submit to publish so I can reassign)
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 0 Under review

Limit who can create new spaces at the highest level (only admins) – no restrictions on the spaces at the highest level in your library, user restrictions begin inside of those spaces

Limit who can create new spaces at the highest level (only admins) – no restrictions on the spaces at the highest level in your library, user restrictions begin inside of those spaces
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 0 Under review

Make UIDs searchable

Currently it is not possible to search for the unique ID (UID) of a process blueprint or any other artifact. As we are using the UID to identify and refer to our processes it would be very helpful if we could use it as well in the search function.
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 0 Under review

Coach view ECMFolderList doesn't permit to filter the CMIS content

Workflow Capability permit to work with ECM servers through the usage of the CMIS protocol. We are building a CSHS interface that uses the coach view ECMFolderList. Since our ECM is FileNet, we decided to hide some folder implementing the isHidden...
about 1 month ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

Business Automation Insights for orchestrate

We are considering using orchestrate as a means to perform simple back-office tasks, we would need to be able to monitor from a service perspective the processes performed in orchestrate - number of proceses, types (per business function), number ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Provide a containerized image of Content Manager OnDemand

The page Building and deploying Content Manager OnDemand in a Docker container (ibm.com) explains how to set up, configure and run a standard version of CMOD in a Docker container. It would be more useful that IBM provides a cloud ready version of...
2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Under review

Decision Center: Warnings after Excel-upload for decision table / clearer showing of errors in a decision table

We have big decision tables(over 1000 rows) in our services which have 11condition columns and a action column with three fields. These tables are often updated by the business users with the help of excel sheets. After uploading an excel sheet wh...
13 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Task list search to be applied for Defined properties only

Task List Search for Defined Properties Only: Currently, when performing a task list search using Elastic Search, it queries all the properties of the case, not just the ones displayed in the task list. Is it possible to limit the search to only t...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Under review