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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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All ideas

Prioritization of machines/processes

Prioritizing machines/processes to avoid the need for manual rescheduling of executions.
18 days ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

Ability to add variable as path to script in Execute Script command

Starting from version v30.0.1, Execute Script command automatically loads Parameters from the script being called. Due to that, variables are no longer acceptable in the command's path as they get created by runtime. The idea is to add a flag so t...
19 days ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

Info about mapping between S3 Advanced Storage Area Id and CPE document Id.

Customer have configured S3 advanced storage area for FileNet CPE repository. Due to internal security policies, plan to implement periodic scans of entire S3 storage for any malicious content stored in our infrastructure. The scanning tool report...
22 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Close functions editable elements accessible via mouse are not reachable using keyboard on Search and Viewer pages

When navigating the Search or Viewer page using keyboard only, certain editable and interactive UI elements that are accessible with a mouse cannot be reached, focused, or operated using keyboard navigation (Tab, Shift + Tab, Arrow keys, Enter, Sp...
22 days ago in Content Navigator Submitted

Filter and view only specific areas in the Process View

Filtering and Viewing Specific Areas in the Process View Based on process analysis using actual customer data, various cases and activities exist, making it difficult to interpret the process based on these factors. Therefore, the client wants to ...
25 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Submitted

Enable Records Managers to update a defined, supported set of record properties across multiple selected records in the IER desktop.

Records Managers frequently need to update the same metadata property (for example, a custom “Hold Explanation” property) across many records as part of daily operational work.Currently, the IER UI allows property editing only for a single selecte...
29 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other Submitted

Project‑Specific Document List View Properties within a Single Object Store

Background We are currently using the IBM FileNet Salesforce Connector to manage documents across multiple business projects under the same Object Store. Today, document list view properties are configured at the Object Store level and apply unifo...
about 1 month ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

IBM Content Navigator and Change Class with Entrytmplates: original entry template should be set as default selection

When checking in a document with an entry template in the ICN, the original entry template is not automatically set as the default. Users are forced to manually select an entry template even when they have no intention of changing it. ### Current ...
about 1 month ago in Content Navigator 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...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

Remove hardcoded Operator-node affinity for temporary setup Pods to support standard OpenShift workload isolation

Summary of the Enhancement Modify the CP4BA Operator so that it no longer hardcodes node affinity to its own host node when deploying temporary pods (used for PVC mounting and JDBC driver updates) into the operand namespace. The temporary pod shou...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted