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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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Option to add/edit properties in a 'Space'; of IBM BWL tool.

Option to add/edit properties in a 'Space'; of IBM BWL tool.Example... I want to edit 'Goal' to 'Client'.
almost 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

A pop up every time the edit pencil is pressed

A pop up every time the edit pencil is pressed, asking user if they'd like to take a snapshot before editing. This helps in versioning control of all the process documented in Blueworks. Provide great change governance in a regulated organization....
5 months ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under 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

Continuing need for ICN Classic Theme style

Deka Bank is using ICN with CPE and document browse / search . Endusers are accustomed to work with the Classic Style. Request from Deak Bank is to not remove support for the classic syste in upcoming releases
11 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

User audit logging

A rest API or a feature to fetch the last login details of all users in process Center and Process servers.
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Sweep Frameworkt - Introduce a new SystemField like "SweepStatisticLastModifiedDate" instead of using "DateLastModified" for just statistic updates

We discovered by chance that the DateLastModified of a Policy Controlled Sweeps states that the last change on that object was made on a public holiday, where nobody was working. Policy-controlled sweeps keeps also the corresponding statistics. We...
11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Not under consideration

FileNet support for Nutanix AHV vitualization technology

Iberdrola's FileNet enviroments are currently deployed in Red Hat Virtualizacion tecnology, the support of RHV ends next years, so Iberdrola wants to change to another virtualization technology, they have Nutanix AHV as the default vitualization t...
11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Provide a DELETE REST API in Decision Server to delete unused libraries and xoms

When using CI to deploy ruleapps on a daily/commit basis, the amount of unused reslib library is rising regularly. It would be nice to be able to clean unused libs/resources with a REST API as part of a cleaning jenkins job. BTW : a single button ...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Dark mode theme for Content Navigator

In addition to the default theme, users wants to have a dark mode theme as most applications are offering this display (for both energy consumption and eyes comfort)
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 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...
almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration