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,

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

    Support federating BAW systems into multiple PFS clusters

    Customer wants to federate their BAW environments into multiple independant PFS clusters to address the following use cases: - Load balancing: Gaining better performance by having multiple independent elastic search clusters, which are always up t...
    about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Allow multiple uploads of the same document

    We have a business use case to allow one document to be uploaded to two different document classes. One document class has a subset of index information, but is viewable to a larger group. Our current solution is to scan the document in twice. Dat...
    almost 3 years ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

    Ask Your Repository Feature need to have the feature configuration option for choosing the default repository

    --> Customer is using the “Ask your repository” feature .--> There is no option to set Feature configuration to default the Repository .--> When they use “Ask your repository” it always points to wrong repo where CA is not configured. So ...
    7 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

    Provide a curl batch deployment command for decision center deployment

    In order to deploy in other places than directly to the res, (example maven artefactory/nexus repository) , it would be nice to have the ability to create a curl deployment command deployment tool in Decision Center. The content of the command wou...
    about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 6 Not under consideration

    The new AI Button Location

    The new AI button location is in the way of the process model. It often sits on top of text and the model needs to be moved in order to see what is behind it. This button would be better if located with the help section of the screen or in the whi...
    over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 5 Planned for future release

    Collection to Json Command

    Have a command that turns a collection on IBM RPA into a Json object and vice-versa.
    about 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Enable wTM service to process all request headers in lower case

    This request is to enable wTM API services to comply to the networking standards (RFC 2616 Sec 4.2 and RFC 7230 Sec 3.2) which state that HTTP headers are case insensitive. This issue was identified during our testing with IBM Cloud Load Balancer....
    about 3 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

    Have a configurable “Service unavailable” page for CP4BA components, which are currently unavailable, instead of the “Bad Gateway” error page.

    Please find the detailed description of the scenario which we encountered recently. Business Justification: The “Bad Gateway” page does not provide users with meaningful information when a service is unavailable. A customized “Service Unavailable”...
    11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Add a REST endpoint to retrieve a rule analysis report from the Decision Center

    Through a REST endpoint, we want to generate reports (similar to those already available within the Rule Designer) and forward them to the respective departments. The entire process would then be a fully automated solution without user interaction.
    over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    Add CMIS‑style offset/limit pagination support to the FileNet GraphQL API

    FileNet’s GraphQL API only provides token‑based pagination, which requires clients to store and reuse a continuation token. This is difficult for distributed systems or lightweight clients that don’t keep state. Adding an optional offset/limit pag...
    7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

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