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:

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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,

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  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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Request for Unified Timezone Configuration Across ALL CP4BA Components

Dear IBM/CP4BA Team, We would like to request a unified approach for configuring timezone settings across all CP4BA components. Currently, timezone configuration must be managed individually for each component through jvm_customize_options (for ex...
17 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

Request to Enhance Logging Parameters Documentation and Feature Support

Dear IBM/FNCM Team, The current documentation for Logging Parameters only references a limited set of configuration options. However, there is a requirement to support integration with Elasticsearch using additional authentication mechanisms such ...
17 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Enable fetching of oidc access_token from zen/foundational services to use for authenticating downstream services.

It is useful because it would enable us to authentienticate downstream services (BAW external services) with access_token generated from OIDC flow (and ideally compatible with this: Invoking CP4BA APIs using custom authentication tokens). From BAW...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

MEGA AUTOMATION ANYWHERE SYSTEM (MAAS-AI) “Self-Correcting Multi-Sector Autonomous Alliance Grid”

Below is a DARPA / IBM-style structured submission concept for a Mega Automation Anywhere AI Alliance System. This is framed as a conceptual research + defense-grade architecture proposal, not real legal filings. MEGA AUTOMATION ANYWHERE SYSTEM (M...
18 days ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere Submitted

Add @mention functionality to comments

Addressing comments/tasks directly to other users by mentioning them within a comment would be a great feature and make collaboration even more efficient. Ideally mentioning users in a comment would trigger an email notification and create a task ...
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live Submitted

Renaming a group in Okta causes the corresponding FileNet group reference to become orphaned after SCIM push to CP4BA.

When a group is renamed in Okta and pushed through SCIM / IdP to CP4BA, the renamed group does not maintain the same effective linkage in FileNet. As a result, the original group reference in FileNet becomes orphaned, which can affect access tied ...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Making hyperlink clickable in a pdf or Word doc

Currently, if a process diagram is exported to Word or a PDF and there is a sub process with a hyperlink, the hyperlink appears to only be active in text at the top of the page. Can we make the hyperlink active in the activity in the Word doc or P...
20 days ago in Blueworks Live Submitted

Support choice list-based properties in FileNet Marking Sets

We would like IBM FileNet Content Platform Engine to support properties associated with choice lists when defining or using Marking Sets. Today, Marking Sets are a very useful mechanism to dynamically apply security based on metadata values. Howev...
20 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Email Thread Creation when replying emails using microsoftMailConnect

This feature request aims to improve email automation by ensuring consistent conversation threading The expected behavior is for the automation to always maintain thread continuity: when replying to a single email with no existing thread, it shoul...
20 days ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

Application logging

We are currently developing process applications on BAW 21.x and BAW 24.x Traditional. More than 20 process applications from various departments run on this server, and more are constantly being added. When we use the standard logging method, na...
21 days ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

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