Skip to Main Content
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

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
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...

All ideas

Showing 1410

Improve Performance of "Show counts for all in-baskets" Option, which currently uses expensive getFilterCriteria calls

(REF: TS017813455 - Slower system performance after upgrading to BAW 23.0.2) After upgrading from BAW 22.0.1 to BAW 23.0.2, users are reporting slower performance in loading inbasket. Through TS017813455, it was found that this was due to a differ...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

We need an OOTB process to bulk delete Cases and Case documents that have met retention guidelines

We need to make sure that records are disposed of in a timely manner and currently there is no straightforward process to delete the Case, Case documents and workflow assets. The discussion here about the Case Rest API seems to indicate it address...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Export of Decision Tables (DT) to Excel should export also the Table formats

When you have a Format set to your Decision Table column, this format is not being exported when you export the Decision Table. The result may not be usable as such for instance for script operation by the customer, forcing extra editing operation...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Choose where ERM data gets reloaded to

The ability to specify where ERM should load data (Cache vs WORM Storage / Other File System etc). ERM loads objects straight to Cache even if the original object has met its Cache fulfillment and resided solely on WORM media at the time of extrac...
3 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Have REST API for Deleting Process Instances also delete indexes for those processes

We use the DELETE method of /std/bpm/processes for our operational instance purge. We recently discovered that while the call removes the instances, it leaves behind the Process Portal Indexes and Task Indexes. The only way to clean those up curre...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Incorrect\misleading response for CM8 repository login with incorrect password

There is an inconsistency with the the response to login attempts in ICN:When a user with incorrect userid or password attempts to login with CPE backend repository, the error returned the expected response as: "The user ID or password is not vali...
3 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future 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...
3 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

IBM dcDesktop client allow page(s) within a document mark for delete showing a red x next to the page. Customer would like the same feature apply at the document level when fixing up the document. Same customer as in IDEAAPP-I-112 requesting similar interface enhancment.

When batch is in fix-up using dcDestkop the batch tree will show the batch structure. Customer would like to be able to mark the document for delete instead of one page at a time within the document. Currently if you mark the page for delete a red...
3 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Future consideration

Support remote java application debugging for Decision Service

With Classic Rule Projects, we were able to create a "Remote Java Application With Rules" in Rule Designer 's Debug Configurations, and this allowed the user to remotely debug java application with Rules, including by adding breakpoints inside the...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Extension for Rule Preview Formatting

When previewing (as opposed to editing) an action rule, we'd like the ability to programmatically add line breaks and other styles to the displayed rule. This would make reading the rule easier for authors. This might be a dojo extension.
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration