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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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Pinned ideas

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...
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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BAW Portal Dashboards Multiple Teams

In Process Portal you can save searches and share with a team. It would be nice if you can share with more then one team. We the Developers are the ones creating those custom dashboards for our users, by only be able to add one team my peers can't...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

PFS support for new releases of ElasticSearch

Process Federation Server (PFS) supports an externalized Elastic Search service at version 6.x of ES. Internally PFS uses the Elasticsearch Java High Level REST Client 6.1.4, and the Elasticsearch doc states that it supports interacting with&...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Support specifying max results in Content Navigator stored search

In WorkspaceXT Search Designer it was possible to limit the number of search results per individual search. When a search is done, only the specified number of results is returned. Desired behavior: In ICN, user creates a new search After specifyi...
almost 6 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

Please add the ability to specify space permission on the API which can create or amend spaces

Please add the ability to define access user groups and their rights (create blueprints, Manage space permissions etc) when creating a new space, and the ability to update permission on existing spaces using the API
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Delivered

Text in the Case Comments cannot be copied

Hi, The case comments pop-up window does not allow copying the case comment text. Can this be fixed as soon as possible. Thank you.
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

IBM BAW to support Java11

Hi IBM Team, As per our Citi requirements BAW product has to be run on Java11. When we checked with vendor support on this. They have confirmed as "At this point, there are no plans for IBM BAW to support Java 11. " We Citi CATE Engineering team r...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Enhancement of where used functionality in Glossary

For each Glossary we have "where used" option which displays the list of artefacts that contains the specific glossary value. When we click on a particular process map it opens in the same page.
about 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Delivered

Support and allow AWS RDS SQL for the Database platform

As a cloud customer, we are considering moving our SQL implementation to the AWS RDS SQL platform. AWS has recently added support for JDBC XA Transactions, so the AWS RDS SQL platform should be ready for certification and support by IBM FileNet Co...
about 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Delivered

Limit usage of cmwebsvc (SOAP+REST)

End users should only be able to access CM via Content Navigator. They should not be able to use cmwebsvc to interact with the library server. We need a way to restrict usage of cmwebsvc to specific user, groups, etc.
about 2 years ago in Content Manager (CM8) 0 Delivered

Enhance Business Console Test Report window to filter out all passed test cases and only show those cases that failed.

Currently, the Business Console Test Report window has the ability to filter on entered search criteria. We would like to have either a keyword to enter (like "Failed") or some way to click on something that filters out all the successful tests an...
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Delivered