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

    For Document Explorer: Allow a developer to filter which document classes, display name and properties appear when a user clicks add document. Much like using an Entry Template with FileNet and Content Navigator

    Allows for better customization for case solutions and only presents the information necessary for the case type being worked.
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    Enable Support for Passing webhookID as a Parameter in Capture Services Toolkit for ADP Integration

    Currently, the capture-toolkit-1.0-master-full.jar does not allow passing a webhookID parameter when submitting documents to ADP. This forces all ADP callbacks to be sent to a single, static webhook URL in BAW, limiting flexibility for workflows t...
    about 1 year ago in Automation Document Processing 0 Not under consideration

    Migration path of runtime data between different database types.

    The customer uses Oracle for the database of BAW and considers to change the database used by BAW from Oracle to MS SQL Server from system management perspective. When changing the database to MS SQL Server, the customer needs to migrate current r...
    10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Zen should have the feature to support Org based authentication

    Currently in WAS, we have a feature to authenticate users at BPM using All Authenticated in Application's Realm. This looks up the LDAP repository with the base entry o=<Your Org Name as configured in LDAP> Looks, Zen does not have this feat...
    about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Planned for future release

    Customize and add new assigned task email templates

    •How to modify existing templates externalmailprocesslink_{0}.html and externalmailnoprocess_{0}.html •How can I provide a custom once to be used as templates? Custom styling, corporate design, custom order of data, logos, ... •What are the data a...
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Active Active Usage of FileNet Workflows across different OCP Cluster during the Workflow Transfer, Region Initialisation etc

    The customer TTB is implementing CP4BA FileNet Environment in Active Active PROD Setup across two OCP cluster in different Data Center. Currently its noted that they can run active/active for Process Engine tasks during runtime operations like sta...
    almost 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration

    GraphQL query choicelist values

    GraphQL (unlike REST) allows you obtain several information about object in one request. But it doesn't allow to obtain display value of choicelist property (when query for folders/documents or other records) Moreover it doesn't allow to obtain ch...
    over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

    Create a new end point in the API to get all Groups and Users Data in just one call

    We are looking the way to get in just one call to your API all the user data and the group data to work it in our side. we are currently using this call https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/blueworks-live?topic=blueworks-live-api
    about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 5 Future consideration

    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...
    about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Provide Revision History Feature in WebPD

    This feature is available in Desktop PD but not available in WebPD. This can be very essential for the developers to see the change history and revert back the code to any prior change point.
    almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

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