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

    Customer's Plugins do not work anymore when activating the new CSP support for removeUnsafeEval and removeUnsafeInline

    Please refer to ICN Forums here for details: https://github.ibm.com/ECM-Forums/icn-internal-forum/issues/181 A customer's Development team opened a Case with the following Problem Description: ===================================================We ...
    over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

    Alternative way for solving CVE-2023-50959 in BAW.

    In the context of CVE-2023-50959 which is solved by KI DT247523, we have a complex situation that cannot be solved with the two ECM services : ECM Document Authorization Service ECM Query Authorization Service Our security scan suggested to avoid ...
    4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Task mining - adding an option of record all activities

    Task mining - adding an option to record all activities (settings tab) Before you start recording, by default you have to provide a list of applications and websites. If the user will use applications that are not on the list during recording (e.g...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

    Cache choice list data on the client side to improve BAW Case client performance

    During performance testing of the BAW platform we observed a high volume (1 million) queries against the Cvl table during a 4 hour test of 250 users. This contributes to latency in the BAW case client UI.
    over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Improvement of command 'Create from Data Table'

    Currently, command Create from Data Table does not save Datatable columns with their format ( number as number, date as date ) but as the excel where it is saved is formatted. A switch option to keep format of Data table would be very beneficial. ...
    over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Not under consideration

    use of PATCH or TRACE in REST service OpenAPI

    Use of the Patch Operation offered by the Rest OpenAPI is required by the Business Case.
    over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Make the IBM Content Navigator Edit Client Service temp-path configurable

    It's by design that the ICN Edit Client downloads documents to the %TEMP% and %APPDATA% directories. It would improve usability to make the app/temp folder configurable in the Edit Client's configuration file. For security reasons the default loca...
    almost 3 years ago in Content Navigator 2 Future consideration

    AI decision intelligent in ODM

    Based on a given task, AI will be able to identify the decision service, create the change release, make change to the rule/decision table, and deploy the changes to the lower environment.
    6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    Allow attributes on relationships between models, and also on relationships to glossary items

    A linkage between a process maps and an property value (e.g. a system), or between two process maps is currently possible in BWL. The value of those relationships would be greatly enhanced if we could store custom property values against those rel...
    2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review

    Separate permissions for users to create Process Blueprints, and Journey Models

    We have two separate taxonomies in Blueworks - one for Journey models, and one for process models. Currently "Process" users with Editor licenses can create Journey models in the Process taxonomy and conversely "Journey" users can create Process m...
    2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

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