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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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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
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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I see we can send the image to the models and get the extraction rather sending the OCR page text to watsonx.ai models. I see better accuracy for the terrible handwritten documents

I see we can send the image to the models and get the extraction rather sending the OCR page text to watsonx.ai models. I see better accuracy for the terrible handwritten documents
7 months ago in Datacap 2 Under review

Upgrade RRProcessor.exe as a 64-bit process

Currently, RRProcessor.exe runs as a 32-bit process, which limits the usable memory to 4GB. The process occasionally encounters out-of-memory errors and terminates unexpectedly. This issue stems from the inherent 4GB memory limit of 32-bit processes.
4 months ago in Datacap 3 Under review

Add the option 'Right Click' to command Click on Web Page

It would be useful to add this enhancment to the command to avoid unnecessary workrounds ( get coordinates of element via window indentifications, attaching window and use mouse command ). This workround also proved more times ineffective or was n...
10 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

Add command to switch iframes for web automations with IBM RPA

Many webpages and especially ones which are being used to download various reports based on filters etc, but in general more robust pages, now usually include more then 1,2 iframes. It would be 100% flexibility and efficiency improvement if there ...
6 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

Filenet & Azure Blob storage integration

As of now, FileNet and Azure Blob can be configured together only using shared key. However, due to known risks and issues shared key access is disabled in some organizations. Alternative way of making this connection (e.g. using Azure Active Dire...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 3 Under review

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...
12 months ago in Datacap 0 Under review

Simulation job parameter to show the date in the format set on DC locale - currently only showing date format in US

Users need to be able to set the locale for the dates used in the JobParameter. As See below extract from Sample <scenarioSuiteFormat locale="EN" name="loanvalidation.random.multi-thread.format" version="1.0" xmlns="http://schemas.ibm.com/rules...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

GraphQL API parity issue. Need to allow more complex SQL queries

GraphQL API inner join query not returning all properties GraphQL Parity with Java API Problem Description Doing more complex SQL like a simple inner join query via the GraphQL API does not return information for properties that exist in the class...
12 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Under review

Change ephemeral storage usage to generic ephemeral volumes

The current usage of ephemeral storage (via {emptyDir} in deployment manifests can cause problems for bigger shared Openshift/Kubernetes environments, since the storage is allocated on the node storage, which can lead to pod eviction in case of un...
12 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Under review

Add support for Tomcat 10.x for BAMOE 8.0.x

Currently, BAMOE 8.0.x supports Apache Tomcat 9.0.x but not 10.x. Adding support for 10.x would be helpful.
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Under review