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:

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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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Produce a web based version to work with New Outlook.

MS New Outlook no longer works with the old com add-ins in outlook. They need to be web based and ideal available through the MS catalogue.
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator Future consideration

Use of OpenAPI Properties allOf, oneOf, anyOf

Business Case need use of the allOf, oneOf, anyOf provided from Rest OpenAPI
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Native S3 and Azure Blob Storage Support for ICC File System Collector

IBM Content Collector (ICC) for File Systems currently supports NTFS, ReFS, DFS, and Novell file systems as source types. There is no native connector or documented support for ingesting content from AWS S3 or Azure Blob storage. Enterprise custom...
3 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files Future consideration

The ICN stored search displays the Boolean operators between the groups and the individual criteria only in edit mode. It should be visible both Edit mode and while opening normal stored search.

The issue is that, when you create a search that has property groups, as long as the search is in Edit mode by the creator/owner of the search the Boolean operators within the group and between the group and the individual criteria are visible. Bu...
almost 2 years ago in Content Navigator Future consideration

Ability to add data validation on the simulation query parameters

The customer's business users are heavy users of the the simulation feature. They have simulation configuration with query parameters which accept values for filtering the values of the simulation scenarios. There are times when the business users...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

New Data Mapping dialog in Process Center 23.0.1 should differ between input, output and private variables.

Case TS014697681 was opened to address that the new data mapping dialog does not differ between input, output and private variables.We were told in the case:"It's irrelevant as to what tab you are on (input mapping, output mapping) as to what vari...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Remove the case-sensitivity check when an instance is launched in PFS Process Portal

As worked on case TS013115945, when a user is updated in LDAP from lower to uppercase of vice-versa, PFS and BAW does not update the user as expected since it checks the full path with no case-sensitivity… if it matches the exact same path, it’s s...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Task to be visible to all actors (team of actors) till action taken by any one of them

The customer is using BAW for multiple processes. They have team of actors (approvers) at every step in the flow. Current behavior: When any actor from the team, opens the article from the TODO list, the article disappears from the TODO list of ot...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Allow the approver in the flow to take action on bulk of items

The customer is using BAW for multiple tasks. About 300 articles are created every day and may existing articles are edited. The flow has many approvers and one of them being the taxation team. Articles created by every department will have a taxa...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Bulk creation / edit of article - Each article triggers a flow

Similar to transaction systesms (like bank), where they allow us to download a template, fill the template with details for multiple transactions and upload in one go. This ends up triggering multiple transactions. The customer is using BAW for pr...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

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