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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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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
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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Business Automation Workflow should support Multi-value property templates of type unique

We are facing issue with the multi value property allowing duplicate values for multi value property in case client screen. We would like to have a property to provide values with unique and ordered as list in case client screen. PFA of case clien...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

RBAC permission to avoid filter sharing

This is a customer scenario where they want to set some permissions for a user that can see/create filter templates, but can't share them. The idea is to create a new option within PM permissions to configure an user to be able to see/create filte...
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Establish an efficient way to install fixes when customizations are involved

During the software upgrades to BPM/BAW, the recommended last environment to upgrade is ALWAYS going to be the Process Center. Process Center holds the production code repository, and once updated will not be able to support a production Process S...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

Salesforce Connector should allow to search for and add existing FileNet documents

Client is used to working with an ICN iframe embedded into Salesforce UI. Accordingly they are not building a Salesforce integration from scratch, instead they have a history of documents 'linked' to Salesforce records (at least to find the docume...
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Localization of instance and process names

Customers develop Japanese and English applications for end users, referring to this document.https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/baw/20.x?topic=interfaces-localizing-process-applications Developers basically use Japanese when developing ProcessApp on the...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM BPM/BAW must be compliant with tmforum provided standard openAPI.

IBM being a member of tmforum (https://www.tmforum.org/open-apis/) and many clients adopting standard set by tmforum all the product should be able to consume swagger files provided by tmforum community. However IBM BPM is not able to parse it. Pl...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Speech to Text from audio files

Two use cases for audio files uploaded to or already stored in CPE: 1. User uploads an audio file into FileNet, which triggers an event to automatically generate the transcription of the audio file and adds the text document either as a new docume...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Support for multiple projects in a single database

Within CP4BA 23.0.2, ADP requires you to have a single db instance per project. In case of multiple projects, it can make the creation/maintenance of the different db's cumbersome and increase cost. It would be preferred having a single database f...
5 months ago in Automation Document Processing 1 Future consideration

Enhance Viewer functionality

Currently In Blueworks live Viewers do not have the following functionality 1. Not able to export process maps as excel file( from folder level or from process) 2. Not able to do word export of the process maps 3. Details pane does not show meta d...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

When trying to add an extra column, if the exposed variables are exposed in different process, then the way it shows in workplace has too much data.

It works 'as designed' but that does not necessarily mean it is best for user experience. BAW User is using CP4A with the case feature. Their case type has multiple activities, each activity has at least one human service task. It has an exposed b...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration