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

    Allow Renaming and Deletion of Snapshots

    Allow the ability to rename an existing saved Snapshot. Sometimes we may have entered a typo or just want to enter a clearer description of the previously saved Snapshot. Also permit deletion of a previously saved Snapshot. Number of times we sav...
    over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    Possibility of starting JVM when ROS mode is enabled on Primary BAW host

    Customer wanted to enable Read Only Stand By (ROS) mode on DR server and start the JVM. However, when they enabled the ROS mode and starting JVM was not successfully. They wanted this type of enhancement to use when they migrate from Db2 to Oracle...
    4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Include DBA out-of-the-box connectors with IBM RPA

    It would be nice to have BAW, ODM, Filenet, CMOD connectors to be pullable as commands instead of always built from scratch.
    almost 6 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

    Enhancement: Add GUI for GraphQL version 5.6

    The previous version 5.5.12 of GraphQL had a GUI. It was much harder to do the install without the GUI, searching for all the values to fill in. Generating and then running each XML file was painful.
    over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Persist data between documents in a batch in Datacap Navigator

    We have customized the index screen so when the indexer selects the 'Persist Date' checkbox, the indexing screen remembers the received date and populates the field for each document in the batch. When the indexer selects the 'Persist Doc Type' ch...
    over 3 years ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

    Requesting to include Artifact ID in the artifact change grouping in the Blueworks Account Activity Reporting API

    Requesting to include Artifact ID in the artifact change grouping in the Blueworks Account Activity Reporting API. We encounter duplication records in Activity log API extract. The assume duplication records show the same data of 2 different activ...
    almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Planned for future release

    Support deployment of IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) on WebSphere Application Server 9 (WAS 9)

    A frequent situation in customer projects is a coexistence of WAS 9 (for FileNet/GraphQL) and WAS 8.5.x (for BAW).This creates unnecessary complexity in administration, maintenance, security patching, and operational governance. Enabling BAW on WA...
    8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Allow policy based sweeps to trigger Vector Indexing in Content Assistant

    Allowing policy based sweeps to trigger vector indexing allows teams to do batch indexing of documents during off hours where Filenet performance is less critical. In living repositories that have documents that should not be indexed by Content As...
    11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Extend ICM Operations to set Creator based on parameter

    Provide the ability to set the Creator when using ICM_Operations such as createDiscretionaryTaskWithProps and addCommentToCurrentTask. Currently, the Creator is always the system user configured for the JAAS User Name on the Component Queue. Attem...
    over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Detailed error messages

    The application should return generic error information to the user. Detailed error information should only be logged on the server side.
    8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Under review

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