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:

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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

    Filenet & Azure Blob storage integration

    As of now, FileNet and Azure Blob can be configured together only using shared key. However, due to known risks and issues shared key access is disabled in some organizations. Alternative way of making this connection (e.g. using Azure Active Dire...
    about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 3 Under review

    Native Deployment scheduling feature within IBM Decision Center

    We recommend introducing a native deployment scheduling feature within IBM Decision Center. This capability would allow business users to define a specific date and time for deploying rule changes to the Decision Server without requiring external ...
    7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

    Prioritization of machines/processes

    Prioritizing machines/processes to avoid the need for manual rescheduling of executions.
    5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Submitted

    Decision Center is not supporting active/active which is required to update DB sequences to move traffic

    Currently, Decision Center does not support traffic in an active-active setup across data centers. This limitation prevents updating sequences when shifting traffic between data centers. We are looking for a permanent solution to address this limi...
    4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

    I want to reduce the CPU/Memory requests/limits for both containers and initContainers

    We would like full control over all the CPU/MEMORY requests/limits for both containers and initContainers. When we have many environments these numbers add up to quite abit. My profile is currently small so patching it with scaleConfig doesn't hel...
    about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Under review

    Provide a native file content scanning and validation capability in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) ECM File Uploader that can inspect uploaded files for malicious content (such as embedded JavaScript, malware, or potentially harmful payloads) before the file is uploaded to FileNet/ECM and allow the upload to be blocked, quarantined, or rejected based on scan results.

    Currently, IBM BAW ECM File Uploader supports validation such as file type, file size, upload events, and post-upload processing, but it does not provide a documented pre-upload hook or built-in capability to inspect file contents and block malici...
    about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Apache poi libraries are outdated in BAW 24.0.0

    The Apache poi libraries used by the product introduce a class-conflict with the latest version of Apache poi we use in our development. We see this as a vulnerability and would like this to be addressed.
    4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Task to be visible to all actors (team of actors) till action taken by any one of them

    The customer is using BAW for multiple processes. They have team of actors (approvers) at every step in the flow. Current behavior: When any actor from the team, opens the article from the TODO list, the article disappears from the TODO list of ot...
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Allow the approver in the flow to take action on bulk of items

    The customer is using BAW for multiple tasks. About 300 articles are created every day and may existing articles are edited. The flow has many approvers and one of them being the taxation team. Articles created by every department will have a taxa...
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Bulk creation / edit of article - Each article triggers a flow

    Similar to transaction systesms (like bank), where they allow us to download a template, fill the template with details for multiple transactions and upload in one go. This ends up triggering multiple transactions. The customer is using BAW for pr...
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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