Skip to Main Content
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...
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

All ideas

Image and Custom Properties Display with single Click

Image and Custom Properties Display with single Click
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Ability to restrict the file upload of 0 kb or a corrupted file

Ability to restrict the file upload of 0 kb or a corrupted file & Ability to restrict the file upload larger than a specific size This feature will be helpful to avoid the ingestion of an already corrupted file to FileNet CPE.
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Add a warning about possible data loss when Removing a Property Definition from a Document Class Definiton

Users would be warned about the possibility that metadata could be lost when property definitions are removed from a Document class if the class it is being removed from is the only one using the property definition. On SQL server the column defin...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

On MSSQL databases, CPE Property Definition or Template may summarily remove the underlying columns in the database.

Under certain circumstances and only on MSSQL, removing a CPE Property Definition or Template summarily removes the underlying columns in the database.
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Add blueprint ID to API call collecting changes

Hello, Blueworks allows a users to create multiple blueprints with identical name within a space. However when we use following API call: "https://ams001.blueworkslive.com/scr/api/activity?type=PROCESSES_CHANGED&startDate=2024-04-29T7:38:55.29...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

.Net Core support for FileNet

In April 2019, Microsoft released the latest version of the .NET Framework and announced that there will be no new updates to its features. While they offered to continue to support, this only means that bug fixes and security patches will be prov...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Add the ability for the Link Control to rename the file downloaded if it's used to open a file in a new tab

Dears, in the <a></a> html it can be used to open or download files if it's content as base64 is based to the <a> html tag and having the attribute "download" which is used to rename the downloaded file to whatever we need its na...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Default Permissions for Spaces when created

Client is requesting that when creating a new space in BWL, they are wanting to the permissions to be set to the lowest setting, instead of having the default (which applies most permissions to users to access). Permissions for sub-spaces should i...
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Ability to process dates in milliseconds from the data set

Considering that some Excel files may convert the dates into milliseconds, this idea is to allow Process Mining to import the data set to be imported with dates set in milliseconds.
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Add bulk task reassign to REST API

The BPM REST API currently allows the reassignment of a single task, but is lacking a bulk task reassign. Customers wanting to reassign multiple tasks via the REST API need to loop over the list and call the API for each singe task. The task API (...
over 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration