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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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

Content and Capture Services - other

GenAI Search Document Query Object

Provide an API that will allow for searching based on document properties and their values so the search can be incorporated into the GenAI Multi Doc process vs. having to query FileNet to get the document GUIDs and then call GenAI Multi Doc. This...
11 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

SRVC: Enabling Instana in CP4BA

Understand and Research about enabling Instana CP4BA - Alert optimization - Identify the top five CP4BA alerts along with their resolutions, to facilitate automated resolution through Instana and Ansible
6 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Desktop and Entry Template (FileNet) ability to filter choice list items

This is useful to speed up user processes by focusing them on relevant content. Example for a search/saved search the user will only be presented with the items from the choice list of document types that his team works with preventing scrolling o...
7 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Hotkey for next problem on regular text field is working but fail when a file is a radio button field (Duke Lam)

Hotkey for next problem on regular text field is working but fail when a file is a radio button field. This is similar to BACSD-I-218.
7 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Under review

Hotkey option for next problem field in Datacap Navigator

Datacap Navigator performing verify task for a batch with multiple fields containing problems. End-user would like to use the "enter" button to go to the next problem field.This is currently not possible. Only the "tab" key can go from problem fie...
8 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Functionality already exists

IBM Navigator / Edit Service OIDC Support

Today we are using Edit Service with SAML on Weblogic. We are in the transition to CP4BA and it is the company's rule to implement SSO with OIDC. We are requesting to enhance the Navigator Edit Service to support OIDC for SSO.
about 2 years ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Future consideration

IBM FileNet deployment in GCP cloud

Customer needs to use Google Cloud Platform as per business requirements. The request here is to add fsgroup configuration.
over 1 year ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Provide an ELK based log management solution as part of the base Business Automation Content Services on Cloud (BACSOC) as the current logging solution isn't practically usabe

Current Behaviour Currently the Bacsoc SaaS solution provides logs via a portal page named System Operations and provides facilities for retrieving logs from Navigator, Studio, Content Platform Engine, Content Search Services, Content Services Gra...
10 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Improve Entry Template loading speed by optimizing client-side validation

Optimizing the validation process will enhance the end-user experience, save time, and improve efficiency.
almost 2 years ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Under review

Build an integration between IBM Content Collector and ADP/ADP Extension

We have many uses case where a LOB has documents stored in a network share and they need to be moved to FileNet. Step 1. If we could use ICC to process the documents into ADP so that they could be classified and have metadata extracted.Step 2. Pas...
almost 3 years ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Not under consideration