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

    Improve the Default Theme UI by resizing text boxes for better alignment with the legacy Classic Theme.

    Hello Product Management, I would like to request a feature enhancement concerning the default theme on behalf of the client, Booz Hamilton. This pertains to the user interface (UI) real estate in the default theme compared to the classic theme. P...
    almost 3 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

    Info about mapping between S3 Advanced Storage Area Id and CPE document Id.

    Customer have configured S3 advanced storage area for FileNet CPE repository. Due to internal security policies, plan to implement periodic scans of entire S3 storage for any malicious content stored in our infrastructure. The scanning tool report...
    4 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Undo from Accidental Deletion - does not exist.

    Current pain point that is super frustrating. Accidently key press that deletes an entire structure and there is NO WAY to undo that within the Discovery Map Tree Structure. When you accidently blow away a structure - there appears to be no way to...
    12 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

    provide some kind of encapsulation option (private, public) for ODM project variables

    Context : Rule Designer, rule authoring, variable definition To provide a better user experience for business users, and avoid confusion in variable completion.It would be good to provide an encapsulation concept for projects variables : ex privat...
    12 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

    Content Platform Engine Storage Area Metric Count Anomalies Correction Script

    During ingestion and deletions we often see miscounts in the storage area metrics, leading to for instance negative counts in a storage area if swept content from an area to another area (change of device type, migration to object storage). We hav...
    over 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

    Web PD: Ability to switch between snapshots when connected to online Workflow Server

    In our BAW environment, our Dev team can connect to online Workflow servers and debug the instances. However, if we need to switch between snapshots: 1. We will have to navigate out of Web PD process inspector 2. Select the application and a new s...
    over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    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...
    almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    We want to be able to choose format for dates in exporting decision table to Excel.

    in IBM ODM Decision Center 9.5, whenever we export a decision table to XLSX, dates are written in the format M/D/Y H:MM:SS AM/PM. Is there a possibility to change the format to Y-M-D HH:MM:SS. Example: Instead of 08/31/2025 03:00:00 PM, we would l...
    8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

    Need a mechanism in BAMOE to allow dynamic rule updates

    Need a mechanism in BAMOE to allow dynamic rule updates so that business users can modify existing rules (e.g., add new conditions or fields) without going through the full redevelopment and redeployment lifecycle. Expecting to have this via custo...
    8 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Future 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...
    almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

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