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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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Increase the Case Manager in-basket filter to more than 200

The number of work items that are contained in an in-basket is displayed on the tab next to the in-basket name. The default paging size is 200 and is not configurable, as an IBM Content Navigator implementation. technote: In-baskets - IBM Document...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Functionality already exists

Process Owner Assignment & Reporting

BWL is a Business process mapping Software. best Practice is that every Process should have a Business Owner. This can be assigned at the header level (the 'i' icon next to the process name). However, there is no easy way for Process Owners to fin...
12 months ago in Blueworks Live Functionality already exists

Parameter in Control Center for insert OCR/Captcha API-key

The Control Center can have an OCR and Captcha Api-Key configuration parameter, for all scripts to use automatically without the need to enter command by command Today if the customer has a large number of bots, they need to update command by c...
almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Functionality already exists

Allow Content Search Service to connect to an external OpenSearch

Currently, OpenSearch has replace ElasticSearch as the default search engine used by the Cloud Pak for Business Automation - FNCM Search facility. Our customer is considering the usage of OpenSearch as a managed service offered on AWS instead of u...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Functionality already exists

Need developer to be able to upload a decision service to Decision Center without requiring roles rtsAdmin or rtsInstaller. The core roles grant to much access to developers.

Need functionality that would permit a developer to upload a decision from Rule Designer without giving them rtsAdmin or rtsInstaller permission because they should not require that much permission.
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Functionality already exists

Need to manage tasks with dynamic team

If a task is created and gets assigned to the team, if the team gets altered (i.e. a new member is added to the team after the task is assigned to the team), the new member should also see the task in his / her list of tasks.
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow Functionality already exists

Request to add option to allow editting business data in completed instance for admin user

Customer keeps saving completed instances for a long term from a company audit perspective. In business data of process instances, customer adds organization information for user management. After instances are completed, organization in customer’...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Functionality already exists

Management of forms

Form management: allow the programmer to manage the forms (ex input form) in the user settings interface (example for an agency request, allow to set up input fields, conditioned fields, sections, drop-down lists, etc.) <Gestion des formulaires...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Functionality already exists

Feature to monitor and rank the most accessed documents.

The customer needs a report from the most accessed document for marketing, model creation and quality auditing. Right now, the only event monitoring we have doesn’t seem to register when a user opens a document and the deep event monitoring, we ha...
over 2 years ago in Content and Capture Services - other Functionality already exists

Mask P8admin display name.

The customer needs an easy way to change the display name of P8admin for systemic tasks due to a security rule of never displaying admin users. In the case of a security breach, by having an admin user named in the system will make it easier for h...
over 2 years ago in Content and Capture Services - other Functionality already exists