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:

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

    All Warning and Errors in WebPD section

    All errors and warning from BPM artifacts should be displayed in Warnings and Errors section of the Web PD. Now only a subset is displayed and multiple types of errors are missing e.g. errors in javascript editors of Views event handlers, warning ...
    about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Support for Custom DPI scaling

    Currently, it is not possible to run a bot if the DPI scaling is set to a custom scale (other than 100%). For attended bots, I think this would be a nice feature to include.
    over 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    It is recommended to develop a mobile APP for CP4BA

    ICN has a mobile APP, but Case and Workplace do not. It is very inconvenient for users to use the mobile client. It is recommended to develop a CP4BA mobile APP, which integrates all the functions of CP4BA such as ICN, Case, and Workplace, so as ...
    almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

    Include full path for "breadcrumb" navigation links on process view, including all spaces and subspaces

    When viewing a process, the "breadcrumb" navigation shows the space and process name. If the space is a subspace, then to navigate to a parent space, you must click and navigate up multiple times to get to a parent space. Current process view brea...
    about 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

    Enhance ICC FSC Metadata File Collector to process JSON metadata files

    We have a use case to feed Content File and JSON metadata File as a pair to the ICC task route where we wanted to map the JSON attributes to Content File and archive it to FileNet Content Manager repository, right now the out of the box functional...
    10 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Future consideration

    Office macros could have outputs

    The Office macro commands could some kind of output (at the end of the macro execution it could be possible to get the value of some variable from VBA).Currently it is not possible to obtain outputs directly from macro commands, being necessary to...
    about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Support for IIS using WebSphere Plugin for BAW Product

    The BAW server and the ICN/ICM Server are configured to run all services using the WebSphere Plugins through IIS. This configuration doesnt work and we receive below errors: [6/20/22 13:31:28:025 EDT] 000000ed SystemOut O CIWEB.ICMAPIPlugin Error...
    about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    RuleApp Versioning Policy in Business Console and Rule Designer

    Currently, Deployment Configuration in Business Console and Rule Designer do not support RuleApp Versioning Policy. We need to deploy ruleapp from Business Console that automatically increments the version of the ruleapp when it is deployed.
    over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Not under consideration

    Request to update the "Validation errors and warnings view" if there is data mapping error in the service flow.

    If there is error of data mapping in the client-side human service, the "Validation errors and warnings view" is updated to indicate its error.But, if there is error of data mapping in the service flow, the "Validation errors and warnings view" is...
    over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Adding clickable link properties for use in Activity detail or Worklplace

    In order to facilitate interactions with external systems, "Clickable link" property types should be defined so that they can be displayed as a real link in Navigator activity details and in Workplace tasks.
    over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

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