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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
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...

All ideas

BAW container V2202 formatting timestamp(timezone setup) for Application engine relevant Pods

Client aim to have timezone setup for workspace Pods, workspace/workplace Pods are components of Application Engine. Currently the Application Engine doesn't use ISO format to output the timestamp. By now the AE log time is linux time value instea...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM Daeja Viewer support for Image Cash Letter(ICL) file format

ICL is image cash letter file which is kind of image having snapshot of check and its metadata. IBM business impact statement: One of the consumer want to store ICL docs into Filenet and view from ICN.
over 1 year ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Under review

Using yaml to configure foundational services

The client would like to do the configuration of foundational services with ldap groups and Active Directory, that currently needs to be done via the UI. this is for CP4BA and CP4I They would like to have this defined in a declarative way, so they...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Multiple pools

We should have the ability to create multiple pools connected via message connections (dotted line).
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Defining Business Owners for Activities In the Edit Details

When defining activities, a user has to select existing or create new entries for each activity. If there are several activities that fall under the same Business Owner, it would be cool if there was a way to select multiple activities at once, if...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

To Create multiple users and manage them from DC console itself (Basic Registry)

While installing the default users like user Eg.,rtsAdmin to login to DC and deploy rule applications are configured in server.xml file. Later we need add multiple users to access and which is manual in logging to console and edit the file. Instea...
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Be Able to Identify the Different Workflow Types

Currently when you create workflows in BA Studio, there is no way to tell wether the new workflow is BPM or Case related. The only way one would know is that they are told or go through the various workflows until you stumble upon the one you want...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Functionality already exists

Workflow Access

Our organization uses the workflow to route process maps to the Process Owners and Process Managers for approval. We use the approval as evidence for our risk and control assessments but only the people included in the approval flow can see the ev...
almost 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Separate ability to set user access rights from "Manage and Edit Space"

It is not possible to allow users the ability to create their own sub-spaces, but prevent them from assigning their own user/group permissions. this results in lots of support calls when users or their colleagues cannot see content. Compounded by ...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Under review

Choose where ERM data gets reloaded to

The ability to specify where ERM should load data (Cache vs WORM Storage / Other File System etc). ERM loads objects straight to Cache even if the original object has met its Cache fulfillment and resided solely on WORM media at the time of extrac...
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration