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 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

    Need IBM to include AWS managed database services as supported software

    We need IBM to include at least one of AWS managed database services as supported software. We are planning for installing CP4BA, WfPS/BAW on AWS Rosa, and we would like to use an AWS managed database for the WfPS/BAW databases. IBM should include...
    19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

    Improve error messages on file upload

    When a file upload fails, the product currently shows a generic "Generic Error" with no detail about what went wrong. This makes it hard for customers to diagnose and fix the problem on their own, and it drives avoidable support requests. We shoul...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

    Remove the link between the DB schema name and DB User, so that the DB Username can be changed

    This is to allow for changes to be made to the DB Username and to prevent the validation step using BPMConfig.sh from failing when running DB commands.
    about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    configure a Credentials Manager using a Web Identity Provider in FileNet Content Platform Engine 5.7 to avoid managing and rotating static HMAC access keys for our Advanced Storage Areas. Our FileNet deployment runs in a GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) cluster on Google Cloud Platform.

    We are planning to configure a Credentials Manager using a Web Identity Provider in FileNet Content Platform Engine 5.7 to avoid managing and rotating static HMAC access keys for our Advanced Storage Areas. Our FileNet deployment runs in a GKE (Go...
    3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    CORS Policy Issue in BAW with External CPE and Content Navigator to handle multiple allow origins

    The ICN URL to be accessible via GTM, LTM, and also via individual node URLs. At present, the product-provided CaseCors.jar appears to have a limitation in handling multiple origins. In addition to the CORS concern, we would like to highlight the ...
    3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Submitted

    Allow Administrators to Enforce a Standard Date/Time Format Across IBM Content Navigator and BAW Case Client Desktops

    Currently, IBM Content Navigator (ICN) and BAW Case Client display date, time, and timestamp values based on the user's browser regional settings and/or configured locale. As a result, users accessing the same case, document, or audit information ...
    9 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

    Configuration updates or certificate renewals cause pods to restart following a rolling recycling strategy

    Please refer to TS021723214 and TS021609280. As documented in TS021609280, when a configuration change is applied—such as updating the transaction timeout XML in /opt/ibm/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/configDropins/overrides—all CPE pods restart s...
    4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Support Jakarta XML Binding instead of Javax XML binding in newer ODM release

    On ODM 9.5, jdk is moving to JDK 21, and runs in Jakarta EE container, but Liberty/ODM is still running Javax XML binding instead of Jakarta XML Binding. We want use the new xml binding 4.0 instead of old one.
    4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    BAW CI/CD support to other Git hosts (e.g., Bitbucket and GitLab)

    product support for BAW CI/CD support to other Git hosts (e.g., Bitbucket and GitLab)
    10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    I see we can send the image to the models and get the extraction rather sending the OCR page text to watsonx.ai models. I see better accuracy for the terrible handwritten documents

    I see we can send the image to the models and get the extraction rather sending the OCR page text to watsonx.ai models. I see better accuracy for the terrible handwritten documents
    over 1 year ago in Datacap 2 Future consideration

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