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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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Netapp SnapLock Customers are not welcome in the containerized world

There are many customers in the fields which are using FileNet Content Manager since years successfully in combination with Netapp SnapLock volumes. They have created many volumes due to compliance reasons. They have grouped volumes for each year ...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Future consideration

Process mining - additional suggestions (guidelines) for errors

Adding hints to help resolve a given error Adding, in the form of a comment or an additional box, information on how to solve the error (e.g. No such column "eventlog.endtime_ts"), such as providing the exact path to the tab, step or file where yo...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

Hybrid Solution Fixed Content Storage (Retention) with Advanced Storage Area (Staging)

Enhance fixed content device storage to utilize advanced storage areas for staging vs a localized path / file storage location as currently designed. This would utilize the streaming aspects of advanced storage, eliminating local operating system ...
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Future consideration

Process mining - the ability to read data from GCP Cloud

Process Mining - the ability to read data from the GCP Cloud "Create schedule source retrieval from cloud storage" options, the ability to read data from the GCP Cloud Storage should be added. The GCP Cloud Storage is used by the organization for ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

Process Mining - What If - Your to-be scenario - automatic process overview update

Your to-be scenario - automatic process overview update At the level of Your-to-be scenario making changes in the Process evolutions and Configuration tabs and applying the Simulate action, the process overview is not updated. The same problem is ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

Preserving sequence of toolkits when importing process apps

One of the steps during the migration is exporting all the process applications from existing process center on IPas (Workflow Center on Traditional WAS) and importing them into a new / empty process center on container / OpenShift platform (CP4BA...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

How Process Center to list Process Apps and Toolkits marked as "FAVORITES" by default

When logging on to Process Center - the default listing of Process Apps and Toolkits are "ALL". If having many Process Apps or Tollkits this list becomes slow. Is there any way to configure Process Center to list Process Apps and Toolkits marked a...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Provide an equivalent Machine Learning Integration ability in ODM 9.0 & 9.5 to that currently found in ADS

The existing Machine Learning Integration ability in ODM v9.0 & v9.5 is deficient for our needs as it only supports models deployed into IBM Cloud Pak for Data. We are looking to integrate both rules and model into a single decision management...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Process mining - exclude weekends option

Process mining - exclude weekends option Adding "exclude weekends" in the data cleansing tab. Example use: After mapping the data it should be possible to not counting processing time during weekends (because people don't work during weekends) An ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

Provide Daeja View Toolkit for BAW

We use Daeja View embedded into BAW using a toolkit originally created by an IBM employee (https://us-south.git.cloud.ibm.com/schwarzs/bpm-ui-Daeja.Document.Viewer/-/tree/master). This toolkit is very useful but is now showing it's age as BAW has ...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration