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

    Get rid of pod/exec permission required for FNCM Oprator to install CPE in a containerized environment.

    Get rid of pod/exec permission requirement during Filenet/Content Cortex operator install. Change approach moving to installation jobs, and at the same time avoid operator post-install reconcile to require pod/exec permissions.
    13 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Support Jakarta XML Binding instead of Javax XML binding in newer ODM release

    On ODM 9.5, jdk is moving to JDK 21, and runs in Jakarta EE container, but Liberty/ODM is still running Javax XML binding instead of Jakarta XML Binding. We want use the new xml binding 4.0 instead of old one.
    5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    Spring Boot 4.1 Support in IBM BAMOE

    Our organization is aligning with the enterprise technology modernization roadmap, which mandates adoption of the latest supported Spring ecosystem versions for security, supportability, and long-term maintenance. Currently, IBM BAMOE 9.5 supports...
    2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x 0 Planned for future release

    Button to remove all variables with 0 reference

    After finishing more robust developments it would be nice to have a button which would automatically delete all variables which in the final status of development have 0 references. Now we have to scroll through the variables panel and remove one ...
    10 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Planned for future release

    Modernize IBM Content Collector for Email with Native Microsoft Graph API Integration for Exchange Online

    As organizations continue to accelerate their cloud transformation initiatives, Microsoft Exchange Online has become the preferred messaging platform for many enterprise customers. To further strengthen IBM Content Collector for Email as a strateg...
    14 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

    Enhance IBM Content Collector for Email to Support Extraction and Archiving of Attached EML and MSG Files

    IBM Content Collector for Email is widely used in enterprise environments to archive business-critical email content into IBM FileNet. However, many organizations frequently encounter scenarios where emails contain attached email files in EML or M...
    14 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

    AI-Native Task/Process Suitability

    Most organizations today are trying to identify how and where to apply AI in their processes. Businesses are simply providing AI assistants to employees to improve productivity, but not looking at the process itself to transform it from manual to ...
    29 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

    Add REST/API equivalent for BPMSetECMServerProperties in CP4BA

    Customers migrating from traditional BAW to CP4BA containers currently do not have a supported automated way to manage ECM server properties for process application snapshots. Traditional BAW provides the BPMSetECMServerProperties wsadmin command,...
    5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Enhance Process Diagram Visualization with Connector Color Customization and Rich Text Annotation Formatting

    Blueworks Live provides effective process modeling capabilities; however, diagram readability can become challenging in large or complex process maps containing multiple alternate paths, escalation flows, integrations, and annotations. We propose ...
    about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

    Remove the link between the DB schema name and DB User, so that the DB Username can be changed

    This is to allow for changes to be made to the DB Username and to prevent the validation step using BPMConfig.sh from failing when running DB commands.
    3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

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