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:

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

    UI_Preferred_Logon prohibits to add users or groups to the ZEN administration

    Our endusers would like to be brought directly to navigator after having selected the URL in their brwosers. We are using OICD and this works great. Because we want to supress the dialog where you could select the authentication methods we have co...
    over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Planned for future release

    Allow flow approvals over email

    The customer is using BAW for multiple tasks in their environment. The actors (approver) in the flow gets email notification when a task is waiting for their action. The actor then has to use the process portal to act on the TODO list. The custome...
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    FileNet Deployment Manager (FDM) allow for one souce object store to many target object stores in half mapping.

    Often there is a need to propagate the same object to multiple target object stores for data model consistency or for common configuration / objects shared and used across object stores, examples are: common classes, common property templates, com...
    about 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

    Provide an option so IBM License Service does not create the CR

    We’d like a change to the license operator logic to check if a cr was provided and throw an error if one is not present and if one is present parse it and attempt to use it. Or create a new OPR flag to ONLY dump a template cr IF a site asks it to....
    about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

    Support for the ability to compare rule flows between versions in Business Console

    Since Enterprise Console functionality was removed in ODM 8.11.0, it is no longer to compare rule flows that were previously available. My customer has been using this feature for some time now and would like us to add the ability to compare rule ...
    about 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    Task mining - obfuscation - options (additional description)

    In order to make the application more intuitive, the icon marked in red (options) should be described without having to click on it (next to the icon there should be a description of what is included in the options, e.g. visible, anonymised)
    about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

    Is there a way for administrators to disable or restrict the PDF export (Print PDF) option for Viewer users?

    Currently, there is no option to disable or restrict the PDF export option for Viewer users in IBM Blueworks Live. This limitation poses a challenge for administrators who need more control over document sharing and export permissions. Are there a...
    over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

    ICN should allow users to modify the document class via Entry Template

    We have a business user case in which we aim to let users rectify initial categorization mistakes or switch categories to sub-document types. However, IBM Content Navigator (ICN) lacks a built-in feature for end-users to alter document class, nece...
    almost 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

    Provide an option to exclude unused rule flows during rule app archive generation. Currently system supports rule-level filtering through query parameters (e.g., status and tags), similar filtering capabilities are not extended to rule flows, leading to the inclusion of redundant artifacts in the archive.

    In the current application, certain rule flows are maintained in Decision Center exclusively for testing purposes, and there is a need to exclude these non-production flows during deployment to the Decision Server. While the platform currently sup...
    5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

    CP4BA form factors should only install those operators required by selected capabilities

    When installing any pattern of Cloud Pak, the deployment installs all operators, including those that explicitly cover functionalities not required by the selected capabilities. Similarly, when installing standalone versions of DBA products that r...
    about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

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