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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Pinned ideas

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
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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...
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All ideas

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    FileNet Viewer. Word Search inside of Viewer in Documents that are not PDFs

    When preforming a CBR search or Simple Search for documents containing a text value or phrase, you are provided a hit list of the search. However, when you open a document that is NOT a PDF (ie: MS Word) you cannot search for the term inside of th...
    over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

    Align BAW, BAN and CPE supported mime types

    Hi, to upload an Office document into a Document list from a Human service, we have to update the configuration (see link below). A complete mime types definition list exists in FileNet Engine, there's also a mime types definition list in Business...
    over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

    Limitation on sorting activities in-baskets

    Currently there is a limit on the number process instances/activities in a Navigator in-basket for column sorting of 200 items. We are using a BAW Case Solution with BPM workflows. Because of the way the in-basket is implemented, displaying proces...
    over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Improve messages in CPE log to when access is denied to include the objectid

    When troubleshooting access issue especially for developers to design assets it is very difficult to do without turning on security tracing. Here's an example CE_System0.log shows this message: 2024-07-31T08:19:28.743 0000018D ENG FNRCE0001E - ERR...
    over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

    Allow admin to globally prevent user amending their email and business unit

    We use the Business Unit flag to allocate users costs to specific cost centres Currently, the user can edit that data at any time which breaks our cost allocation reporting Please can you add a admin option to make this data read only for the user...
    almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 5 Planned for future release

    Ability to retain column re-sort and re-sizing in Workplace

    In the Heritage Portal, a user was able to resort columns, claim a task and return to the saved search list. When they returned, the columns still maintained the sort that was in place prior to claiming the task. In the new Responsive Portal, the ...
    almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    Add ant sync target "publish and reset" "retrieve and reset" for Business Console

    Context :Ant tasks synchronisation with the Business Console Rationale : Using jenkins to perform automated synchronisation between a SCM (git/svn) and the Business Console triggers new needs for the ant sync tasks. One the the main problem is to ...
    about 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    Better Variable Scope

    As in other programming languages, variable scope would be very useful when calling subroutines. Subroutines should have in and out locally scoped variables that are set in the same way variables are set when calling executeScript
    almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

    Command that returns the font color of the word or text

    It would be interesting to have a command that identifies the color of the text or word written on the screen, returning the corresponding color to the user in an output value. In this case it could be said that if the returned color is red that t...
    about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

    Entry template rendering in BAW 23.0.2 and ICN 3.0.15 (on-prem)

    Additional properties that are of type ‘object’, are being displayed even though they’re not part of a layout. It would be easier to have the feature to toggle this on / off on the fly as opposed to making changes to the target class.
    over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

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