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 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

Showing 2701 of 2701

Provide a DATE Property type that 'ignores' Time Zone information so that it is consistently the SAME value in ALL TimeZones

In the filing of document in the FileNet Platform, the business community greatly needs a Date property that does not change according to the Time Zone one is in. An example is Tax Filing Date for USA: 4/15/2022. This Date is so well known, that i...
almost 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Fix Dashboards bugs

There are some issues with the Dashboard functionallity, mainly not being able to save changes made to a dashboard or import it (exporting seems to be fixed). I tried saving a change that I made to fix the Log hyperlink in the Monitoring dashboard...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Is a defect

Enable CaseSynchronizer to run in "report" mode

Enable CaseSynchronizer to run in "report" mode ===================================== Client reported a concern that, in large installations, they need to anticipate the impact of running CaseSynchronizer tool. client expects granularity of the to...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Playback to include boundary events

When a playback is created and there's an activity or subprocess with boundary events the playback does not allow stepping through the boundary events. Being able to step through the boundary events during a playback will allow a better insight in...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

manufacturing of AI robots for assisting application software jobs and powered by quantum battery to perform 24/7 - 365 days

Version 1 - Agile project management Trello, Jira, Asana - for project management Scrum wise - Scrum management zoom - video conferencing integration Git - version control Confluence - Documentation and collaboration Jenkins - continues integratio...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

manufacturing of AI robots for software programming, website development etc

AI robotic application for AI programming, machine learning, software testing etc
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Disable the administrator's ability to view and edit task data on Instance level

PROCESS INSPECTOR IN PROCESS ADMIN CONSOLE ALLOWS ADMINISTRATORS TO ACCESS and EDIT PROCESS INSTANCE DATAProcess Inspector on the Process Admin Console allows administrators to access and edit instance data on level of process instances and task i...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Password Auto rotation

Feature being requested Password for DB Account and LDAP Account to be auto sync with vault (like hashicorp vault) Why is it required Due to increased cyber attacks passwords should be auto rotated either on defined period or whenever there is som...
about 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

Control of URLs for Client Side Human Services

When you run a CSHS today, it gets a unique URL such as "/rest/bpm/wle/v1/coachflow/service/1.fd73e33c-ad9f-4c42-a4cc-9322dbd4b93e". If you have multiple process apps and multiple CSHSs, you end up with dozens of such URLs and now easy way to know...
about 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Planned for future release

Translation & multi language support

We are a FTSE 100 Company with sites across all of Europe. We operate in up to 10 languages and need to be able to view our standard process maps in most of these languages without creating multiple uncontrolled translated copies!
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration