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

    Allow the descriptions added to metadata fields to be viewable in Analysis Mode

    Currently you have to exit Analysis mode to see the descriptions that have been added to metadata fields that you just hover over to view. We would like this same functionality in Analysis Mode so as we trying to view certain metadata fields and f...
    over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

    Advanced Search Features

    Enhance the search abilities within BwL by adding advanced features such as:• Define search area: o Only current workspace o Include sub-workspaces• Search within: o Blueprint name o Within blueprint o Activities o Description Text o Labels o etc....
    over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

    The "Set User Authentication" option is not available in WebPD when you remote debug into a PS.

    Set User Authentication option is missing when process is run/debugged from remote process server. This option is used to run/debug human task with another test user id. Please refer PMR - TS006594335 for more details. It has videos & everythi...
    about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 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...
    6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Azure SQL support for Content Manager OnDemand for Multiplatforms

    Accordinf to Prerequisites and Versions listed in the SPCR there is a support for Windows SQL Server 2025 currently, but there is no support for Azure SQL database, that according to microsoft is the latest build of Windows SQL Server. Being able ...
    over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

    ACCE should allow the possibility to create a property template of type object with cardinality LIST.

    ACCE should allow the possibility to create a property template of type object with cardinality LIST. In our case management system, we create data entities for people and organization that also contain information about their addresses. We find i...
    almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

    Automatic task affectation - BPMN Process on CP4BA 21.0.3 IF019

    We need the automated affectation of tasks to users who works on a specific task . This can be accomplished by refraining from task assignment during visualization, prompting them to explicitly confirm task affectation acceptance, or automatic rel...
    almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    Return load error details through CMOD REST API calls

    Right now, when a file fails to load to OnDemand through the CMOD REST client, it returns a generic error message in the "status" field: Failed: Failed to commit Load. Please consult the System Log for additional information. RC = 2096 Message = T...
    over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

    Some CPE Timeout Setting which can stop CPE looking for NAS file system or path if NAS filers are down/offline

    This is very useful when NAS filer going down, and can keep CPE function well or provides service as usual.
    11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Not under consideration

    Filter and view only specific areas in the Process View

    Filtering and Viewing Specific Areas in the Process View Based on process analysis using actual customer data, various cases and activities exist, making it difficult to interpret the process based on these factors. Therefore, the client wants to ...
    6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

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