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,

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  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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Choose where ERM data gets reloaded to

The ability to specify where ERM should load data (Cache vs WORM Storage / Other File System etc). ERM loads objects straight to Cache even if the original object has met its Cache fulfillment and resided solely on WORM media at the time of extrac...
1 day ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

ICN should allow users to modify the document class via Entry Template

We have a business user case in which we aim to let users rectify initial categorization mistakes or switch categories to sub-document types. However, IBM Content Navigator (ICN) lacks a built-in feature for end-users to alter document class, nece...
9 days ago in Content Navigator 0 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...
3 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Have REST API for Deleting Process Instances also delete indexes for those processes

We use the DELETE method of /std/bpm/processes for our operational instance purge. We recently discovered that while the call removes the instances, it leaves behind the Process Portal Indexes and Task Indexes. The only way to clean those up curre...
3 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

It would be great to export metadatas into a UTF-8 without BOM txt file.

By default the export actions only permits to export into a UTF-8 BOM or UTF-16 BOM.It would be great to export metadatas into a UTF-8 without BOM txt file. And why not allowing other encoding (ie : ANSI, CP1252) ? It could be a modification of th...
20 days ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

Enabling Stage names translation in Case Client of IBM BAW

Localizing the stages name into a different locale (for eg, Arabic) is currently not possible in IBM BAW. Even tying to localize the stage names using custom string approach ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/24.x?topic=applications-translating-cus...
18 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Needs more information

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL Support

DaVita will be migrating to Google Cloud and want to use AlloyDB for PostgreSQL which is a is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service.
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

It would be helpful to have the ability to access the case comment window and case property window simultaneously, enabling users to easily copy data from the case details page to the comment popup window.

When a user opens the comment pop-up window from the case details or work details page, they should be able to access the property widget or documents tab and seamlessly switch between them. This functionality would enable users to easily copy inf...
12 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Reset the overdue flag upon changing the custom data field without leaving and coming back to the same step

When the custom date field is updated to future date for overdue cases from BAW/Case Manager screen, the overdue flag should reset and recalculate the deadline, without moving the worktime from its current step.
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Incorrect\misleading response for CM8 repository login with incorrect password

There is an inconsistency with the the response to login attempts in ICN:When a user with incorrect userid or password attempts to login with CPE backend repository, the error returned the expected response as: "The user ID or password is not vali...
5 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

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