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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 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...
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

All ideas

Perform action when tabbing out of field in Datacap Navigator.

In the thick client, when the user leaves certain fields, it performs a lookup to an Oracle database to populate other fields. This is achieved using the fieldname.LostFocus event. I'm not sure if there is an equivalent to the LostFocus event in t...
over 3 years ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Allow managing (delete, edit) object tables within an organization directly from the IBM Process Mining GUI.

Object tables in IBM Process Mining are used to add contextual master data (such as vendors, materials, locations, or products) to projects, enriching process analyses with relevant business information. Currently, while users can create, append, ...
12 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2 Functionality already exists

Cyberark JDBC Connector enhancement

The Cyberark Credential Mapper connector would allow us to automate password rotation for all of our jdbc connections in Filenet. See the following article: Credential Mapper for WebSphere Classic: https://docs.cyberark.com/AAM-CP/Latest/en/Conten...
almost 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

IBM CMOD OpenShift Operator (Day-1/Day-2 automation, HA patterns, ODF-ready)

Deploying and operating CMOD on containers still requires many manual steps (sizing, PVCs, routes, upgrades, backups, HA tuning). Inconsistent setups slow delivery and increase risk during upgrades and recoveries. Please provide a Red Hat certifie...
12 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

Native JSON Ingestion & Indexing

Modern apps and event streams emit JSON. Today, teams must pre-flatten or convert JSON (e.g., to CSV/XML) before loading into CMOD, which adds brittle ETL steps, loses nested structure, and slows time-to-archive. Please add a JSON ingest path acro...
12 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Future consideration

Many DC projects must ingest mail from Microsoft 365. Today this requires custom scripts or generic IMAP/EWS workarounds that don’t support Graph-specific features (delta sync, throttling controls, large attachments, change notifications). This increases delivery time, fragility, and support costs.

Ship a first-class Microsoft Graph source connector with: Auth: OAuth2 (App-only client credentials) + delegated optional; tenant & conditional access friendly. Mailbox scope: user mailboxes, shared mailboxes, groups; include/exclude via filte...
12 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

GenAI Search Document Query Object

Provide an API that will allow for searching based on document properties and their values so the search can be incorporated into the GenAI Multi Doc process vs. having to query FileNet to get the document GUIDs and then call GenAI Multi Doc. This...
12 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

AI Enhancements - Process Classification Framework connection and guidance

AI Enhancements - Process Classification Framework connection and guidance, where our process maps fit into the framework we have in place
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 5 Under review

Blueworks space/diagram creator history

System: Blueworks Live Actor: All Blueworks Live users Currently, the history of who created a space or a diagram is lost as soon as another person edits the space or the diagram. The history of who created the space/diagram is important to us bec...
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Visual indication in the thumbnails when there is an annotation on the page

There is no visual indication on whether annotations are on a specific page. This helps the user quickly navigate to those pages that have annotations.
6 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Planned for future release