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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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

    Would like to have a multi-thread upload for large documents across filenet APIs using GRAPH QL.

    Our business users would benefit from it because they sometimes have large documents to upload.
    about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

    Spring Upgrade to 6+ or remove Spring

    We have security vulnerabilities with current Spring version used in BAW Automation Workflow. Our goal is to have Spring Upgrade to 6+ or remove Spring
    3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    Enable validation of variable definitions at the time of saving Variable Sets

    Product: IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) Version: 9.0.0.1 Background / Problem Statement: Currently, validation of variables defined in Variable Sets is only performed during RuleApp build. There is no validation at the time of saving or co...
    3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

    Set default document class to “My Custom Document Class Name” when adding new documents in IBM Content Navigator / BAW

    In IBM Content Navigator (ICN) or BAW, when users add a new document, the default document class is currently set to “Document”. For our client, most new documents should belong to the “My Custom Document Class Name” class, but users must manually...
    9 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

    Openshift 5.5.12 FNCM deployment of FileNet...the CR file has no provisions for modifying number of replicas

    Right now, if you were to choose a Medium or Large deployment in the CR, you get a maximum of 2 pods for like CPE: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/filenet-p8-platform/5.5.12?topic=deployment-system-requirements Is this adequate? Especially for a large...
    over 1 year ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Submitted

    We are migrating from Websphere-->OPC containers. For CMIS, the endpoint has changed from /openfncmis to /openfncmis_wlp

    We have many webservices applications written using the /openfmcis endpoint. Now we have to re-write the connections for our apps to this new /openfmcis_wlp endpoint. This is unnecessary work for us, especially when we do the switch from tWAS->...
    over 1 year ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

    Add options to the cleanup tool to permanently delete all versions of specific artifacts

    Currently, the cleanup tool (/v1/DBAdmin/cleanup REST API) helps reduce the database size when you have multiple versions of specific artifacts (such as DT or Test Suite). However the latest version and the original version remains in the database...
    9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 7 Future consideration

    Enhancement "external integration" to Snowflake, S3, SAP etc

    Many customers are seeking external integration in RPA. External integration means having execution invocation, execution result, error handling and termination as components, etc. We need to see the external integration to S3, Snowflake, SAP etc...
    almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    BAW repository

    BAW has no general repo. in 2024 in BAW its hard to control changes done for a project which uses heavely Tracks its also annoying to manually make this changes between tracks which are prone to errors. Please develop a repository in which Merge a...
    over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

    FileNet CFS should support federation of FileNet Domains on Containers

    Currently, federating multiple FileNet Domains requires CFS-ICI (Content Federation Services with IBM Content Integrator), which the latter not being ported to container platforms, according to Current Limitations on Containers documentation https...
    10 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

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