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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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

    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

    Possibility to change the installation drive of IBM RPA

    Nowadays, during the installation of IBM RPA, the user can't choose which driver to install the product, it's set by default as C: drive. Due to that, we could implement this option in the near future since some Infrastructure/DevOps teams don't ...
    almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

    In IBM Content Collector create a new collector that can connect to and archive content from S3 storage

    S3 storage is becoming more frequently used for various applications and it would be useful to be able to access and archive content from this type of storage.
    over 2 years ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Future consideration

    Jira Stories to BAW Code traceability

    Dear IBM Team, I have a requirement to establish test case traceability from Stories to code via JIRA. I did check for any suitable documentation in the IBM Documentation website, but couldn't find any such information.
    7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Support CM8 8.7.x with Oracle As A Service (OraaS)

    CM8 requires the Library server to be installed on the database server. This is not possible when using Oracle As A Service because nothing can be installed next to the database service.
    7 months ago in Content Manager (CM8) 0 Under review

    Allow asset sharing between BAW and BAA (Business Automation Application)

    Customer (Hennepin County) developed BAA apps, including toolkits and templates. They would like to export the BAA artifacts and import them into BAW. Otherwise they will need to recode the same in both BAW and BAA.
    almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    connecting to SQL server database using Service Accounts

    connecting to SQL server database using Service Accounts which will connect to BAW related databases (BPMDB, CMNDB) and other application based DB that uses JDBC connection. We have a change up comming from SQL DB team where they will stop allowin...
    7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Under review

    Add en_GB to the default list of locales in the Business Console

    Currently en_GB is supported in Rule Designer: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/odm/9.5.0?topic=designer-opening-rule-in-specific-locale However, this is not a language that is available by default in the pre-set languages of BC: https://www.ibm.com/do...
    7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Is a defect

    Ability to extend the Governance Process to the creation/build phase of a discovery map or blueprint

    Currently, the governance process app follows a "Post Creation" approach, which means that after a blueprint has been created, then it transitions to a "Validation" phase or approval phase. As a Blueworks Live user a new blueprint or a change to a...
    10 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

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