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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).


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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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Enhance ICC FSC Metadata File Collector to process JSON metadata files

We have a use case to feed Content File and JSON metadata File as a pair to the ICC task route where we wanted to map the JSON attributes to Content File and archive it to FileNet Content Manager repository, right now the out of the box functional...
about 1 month ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Future consideration

All users can see who created a blueprint and who last modified it, over 90 days

Give all users the ability to view who created a blueprint and who last modified it, even it has past the current 90-day period. It is crucial to be able to see who created an existing blueprint so if another user has a process that overlaps or du...
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Allow for object store mapping procedure in Online snapshot installs

Previous Case Manager users who have Case solutions with solution artifacts (stored searches, email templates, etc) outside of their DesignOS are unable to do solution deployments via online snapshot install because the online install process skip...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Integration of IBM BAW BPEL with IBM Transformation extender maps over RestAPI - OpenAPI 3.x using REST import binding

Integration of IBM BAW BPEL with IBM Transformation extender maps over RestAPI - OpenAPI 3.x using REST import binding. Background: We used to integrate BAW with IBM ITX through mediation modules, as mediation modules used to have ITX primitive to...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Provision of Turbonomic Operator Resource Mappings for the Cloud Pak for Business Automation to allow automated resource management

IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management is used to dynamically manage IT resources to ensure application performance while avoiding infrastructure waste. Applying the Turbonomic Kubernetes Optimization use case to the Cloud Pack for Busines...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

Undo from Accidental Deletion - does not exist.

Current pain point that is super frustrating. Accidently key press that deletes an entire structure and there is NO WAY to undo that within the Discovery Map Tree Structure. When you accidently blow away a structure - there appears to be no way to...
4 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Request for a separate feature to map organizational roles and hierarchy flows.

Currently, IBM Blueworks Live focuses on process mapping and does not directly support hierarchical organizational charts. This limitation poses a challenge for administrators who need to visualize and manage organizational roles and hierarchy flo...
7 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

AI Enhancements - Evaluate process health and provide report (processes that have owners and do not have owners, last updated/stale, unpublished vs published maps)

AI Enhancements - Evaluate process health and provide reports (processes that have owners and do not have owners, last updated/stale, unpublished vs published maps)
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Rediscovery of a Web service should be possible if the location of the Web service changed (e.g., its URL or file location)

There has been a change at VKB that now requires each service being called through an NGINX reverse proxy. That change implied that the location changed from where WSDLs for Web Services are obtained: BAW should now rediscover all services via the...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

AI Enhancements - Indicate duplicate maps or where maps could link/connect to each other

AI Enhancements - Indicate duplicate maps or where maps could link/connect to each other
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration