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:

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

    Filter and sort variables in Studio by input/output parameters

    In IBM RPA Studio, there should be an option to filter/sort the Variables window in order to quickly and clearly identify a script's input and output parameters. Currently, the Variables window can only be sorted by variable Type. Adding the input...
    over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 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

    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...
    over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration

    GraphQL API parity issue. Need to allow more complex SQL queries

    GraphQL API inner join query not returning all properties GraphQL Parity with Java API Problem Description Doing more complex SQL like a simple inner join query via the GraphQL API does not return information for properties that exist in the class...
    almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Under review

    Allow us to use our own PKI certificates with the Navigator Edit Client Service

    This would allow us to manage ourselves, on our own time frame, when the Edit Client Service certificates expire and remove the dependence on the provide IBM certificate.
    about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

    Adding mail attribute of LDAP in LSW_USR_XREF table

    Why is it useful? We are currently working on workflow implementation for Qatar’s largest bank, which has more than 475 processes running in the production environment and a substantial number of new instances being created daily. The daily task v...
    12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    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

    Add support for PING Directory Server as a LDAP Directory Server for our traditional WebSphere FileNet implementation.

    Our current implementation uses VMM. We would like to be able to configure PING as a Native Directory Server in ACCE. Our target state is Containerised FileNet which does not support VMM. This request will simplify the transition to target state. ...
    over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 5 Functionality already exists

    Daeja Viewer: Allow for document comparison view, to compare multiple documents

    Compare contents of different documents
    4 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted

    Provide an option to opt out of auto-renewal or at minimum introduce advance notification and control over CP4BA certificate/licensing auto-renewal

    An unexpected certificate auto-renewal event required immediate intervention and multiple recovery steps. While infrequent, the lack of prior notification and visibility makes the process unpredictable. Customers need the ability to plan renewal d...
    4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

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