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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

Pinned ideas

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...
Share feedback 8
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
Share feedback 0

All ideas

    Need to manage tasks with dynamic team

    If a task is created and gets assigned to the team, if the team gets altered (i.e. a new member is added to the team after the task is assigned to the team), the new member should also see the task in his / her list of tasks.
    9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Functionality already exists

    Bulk import tool - use of multi-character delimiter

    Hello, We have setup bulk import tool for doc migration in our dev server. There is an ask to setup multi-character field and item delimiter in configuration.Current delimiters are as below,FieldDelimiter="#"ItemDelimiter=","MultiDelimiter="|" req...
    9 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Time-Based SLA Escalation Paths

    Allow visual configuration of SLA escalation logic (e.g., email reminder after X minutes, reassign after Y hours) to Reduces reliance on external scripts or custom logic for escalations.
    9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Modern Low-Code UI Designer for Coaches

    Introduce a React- or Angular-based coach designer with drag-and-drop components, real-time previews, and built-in responsive design.
    9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Word-Wrap Participants in Swim Lanes

    Long participant names get truncated in screen views of a process map and are fully presented in printouts. For printouts, it creates challenges because the swimlane height is expanded even if it is only one activity deep. We would like it to word...
    about 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    Add merge cells feature in Table view for BAW

    According to client business requirements, they are looking for merge cells feature in Table view (UI toolkit) based on some column data within the table.
    over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Reinstate Auto color detection in Datacap v9.1.8

    Auto Color detection during functionality missing in Datacap v9.1.8. This is available in v9.0 Problem statement: Our image center resources will be scanning high volume of documents both color and Black&white (gray). After scanning they uploa...
    over 4 years ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

    Remove the character restriction for #$\&=^ in Business Automation Workflow

    Business Automation Workflow advanced software doesn't accept the usage of specific characters including #$\&=^ in the external or internal passwords, citing the invalid characters usage in the password from command line tools: "property has a...
    9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    BMPConfig tool is failing to create deployment environment because of the hyphen(-) in the DB user ID and in the databases name (ex: CMN-DB)

    Our service accounts are generated with hyphen(-) in the ID using the automation process and we are unable to remove the hyphen(-) from the service account ID to support the working terminology of the service accounts. Due to this reason BAW advan...
    9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    WINDOWS AUTHENTICATION support on LINUX REDHAT OS for BAW Advanced software

    The current BAW advanced software doesn't support WINDOWS AUTHENTICATION on LINUX REDHAT servers to backend SQL Server on windows. This idea is raised to implement the WINDOWS AUTHENTICATION functionality to support on LINUX REDHAT OS to windows OS.
    9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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