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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).


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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Compound document manual creation/management (ICN)

Manual compound document creation will allow end user to manually create compound documents from within Content Navigator’s out of the box UI
over 6 years ago in Content Navigator Future consideration

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...
over 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 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...
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 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...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Tags to reflect while exporting the diagrams (any format of export)

Tags to reflect while exporting the diagrams (any format of export) Currently while exporting the diagrams in word / excel the tag details are being captured in the sameHowever, Tags are not getting populated while exporting as PDF / PPT. Hence it...
almost 9 years ago in Blueworks Live Future consideration

Export Case Search results to Excel or PDF (IBM Case Manager)

The one thing that’s lacking in Case Manager is a native built-in Export option. Businesses often wish to have a quick way to export their Case Search results into Excel. Currently, they contact the technical team who then run scripts manually t...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 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...
over 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Future consideration

Cancel changes in Workflow Center Solutions

Currently, when opening an existing solution in Workflow Center, there is no option to exit out of the solution to release it, or to cancel any changes (on purpose or inadvertent) made by the developer that should not be saved or deployed. Just li...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

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!
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live Future consideration

Display date property with date format only, no need hour/minutes/second

There are some properties have only date nature (yyyy/mm/dd), no need HH/MM/SS, but in CMS, it displays all datetime properties with “mm/dd/yyyy, HH:MM AM/PM”, such as "1/25/2022, 12:00 AM"
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration