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 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...
Share feedback 8
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
Share feedback 0

All ideas

    Retention Settings of Snaplock device are cached even across CPE restarts

    Dealing with a case we became aware, that changing the min/default/max retention times of a Snaplock volume did not reflect in FCD trace. Traces show that the retention times are still compared with the old settings the snaplock device had before....
    8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Conversion tool for Heritage Human Services in BPM

    Many long-time customers have large numbers of heritage artifacts, such as Heritage Human Services. There is no tool available to convert Heritage Human Services to a CSHS with the SPARK toolkit; you would have to recreate the entire UI by hand. A...
    almost 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

    No warning being send to invited user before the invitation expired

    When a user received an invitation to join a BWL account he has 72h to "accept" this invitation.However, there is no reminder being send, for instance 24h before expiration
    almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

    Allow configuration of automated check of properties on Process BluePrints

    We have some properties that we require to be populated in certain instances. Right now we manually review for these to be present. It would be great if there were an option to automate these checks. For example, if Custom Property #1 is populated...
    over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

    ApplySearchFilter: Add support to use Hour And Minute in the Start and End time parameter

    For now, the ApplySearchFilter command does not support using the hour and minute format in the start date and end date. The command will not fail or generate any error messages, but the filter will only use the month/date/year
    8 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

    No Code environment to define workflows

    Summary Web Process Designer environment is too complex to create a process for a persona with limited technical skills. There is a need for a much simpler No Code tool to configure workflows from pre-defined project-specific components that can b...
    almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    Add the ability to OR conditions together in Saved Searches.

    Our business is having to maintain multiple searches because they want to retrieve tasks that meet one condition OR another condition. The current saved search functionality forces them to have to monitor several different saved searches rather th...
    over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    Ability to fetch all the nested groups and users from a parent group

    In a BAW user group, we have the option to add users as well as other BAW groups. With this approach, there is always a chance that we could have several layers of nested BAW groups. We are looking for a way (some kind of API) to find all the user...
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

    IBM FileNet CPE Option to Detect and Split-On-Upload and Merge-On-Download Large Files - Parallelize and Improve Upload/Download Performance

    Content sizes continue to grow due to rich media like audio recordings, video recordings, large data and/or logging files, videos with transcriptions, documents with many pages including images and embedded content. An idea for IBM FileNet Content...
    over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

    Support for headers configuration for the new Bots API callback URL

    The new IBM RPA Bots API callback URL does not support any normal security arrangements. It's common practice to have some basic security (API Token, Basic Authentication, Bearer Token) on the API endpoints that we would normally use as callback U...
    over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

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