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

    Allow Content Search Service to connect to an external OpenSearch

    Currently, OpenSearch has replace ElasticSearch as the default search engine used by the Cloud Pak for Business Automation - FNCM Search facility. Our customer is considering the usage of OpenSearch as a managed service offered on AWS instead of u...
    about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Functionality already exists

    Possibility to integrate Business Automation Workflow with Grafana

    Grafana is a visualization tool that turns data from multiple sources into interactive dashboards. It’s used for monitoring, analysis and real time alerting. We would like to integrate this with BAW product to enhance Support Team experience by ge...
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Adding the ability for the BPM File Dropzone control to upload files to FileNet

    We have a situation that our customer moving from usinr BPM Embedde Object store to IBM FileNet Oject store and they were usinf BPM File Dropzone control now they need the same control to upload to FileNet and we found that it only works for BPM D...
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Hide CMIS query objects when running a service

    As per security team recommendation, Information that can help attackers to have an idea of backend query should not be disclosed in HTTP requests and such queries should not be constructed at server end.
    about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Implement artefact deletion in Business Console update REST API

    Decision Center REST API (update command) does not manage deletion of Rules artefact (package and rules). In order to synchronize a developer rulebase reference (SVN) and a Business Analyset rulebase reference (BC), we are using a CI integration (...
    over 4 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

    IBM BAW ENV Variable Cache Size.

    CBR (Dutch Driving Agency) are experiencing severe performance problems. They've noticed that a high proportion of the BPEDB Database activity is related to accessing ENV variables. Apparently, the tables LSW_ENV_VAR, LSW_ENV_VAR_SET and LSW_ENV_V...
    over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Loading Avatar from LDAP

    There is a function to load user information like mail address, job title etc. from LDAP into the user profile. There is no function to also load the Avatar from LDAP.
    over 8 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...
    about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

    Migrate to new hardware and upgrade as one step

    I want to be able to migrate to new hardware and upgrade as an integrated step. This would allow me to install 22.0.2, copy over a 19.0.0.3 database, run DBUpgrade on it, and have Workflow run the needed profile upgrade, bootstrap, and update syst...
    about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Possibility to perform HTTP GET Request with a Body

    I'm having trouble making GET requests with Body, I understand that in the old versions of the specification this was explicitly unacceptable, but we agree that some Brazilian DEVs do not read specifications and even if they do, in the current ver...
    over 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Not under consideration

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