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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

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CP4BA deployed on IBM Power hardware needs to support FIPS

Many state/local/federal government customers have a FIPS mandate for systems accessing or processing personal sensitive data. This is a Federal regulation requiring specific encryption support across all services accessed by FIPS compliant system...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 4 Planned for future release

CP4BA support for the CPfs Unified Console

This feature is required to prevent potential unexpected behavior with CPFs SSO when the CPFs deployment sizing is medium or large.
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

The new AI Button Location

The new AI button location is in the way of the process model. It often sits on top of text and the model needs to be moved in order to see what is behind it. This button would be better if located with the help section of the screen or in the whi...
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Provide ability to not include archived users in user export

When exporting user lists it includes archived users but almost 99% of the time I don't need the archived users so I have to delete them from the CSV file so I can work with the data. While not a huge deal, it would be a time savings to be able to...
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Allow multiple users to be selected at one time to archive

To manage our licenses I archive users who haven't used BWL in one year or more. That means selecting many users monthly to archive. It would be a significant time savings if I could select multiple users to archive at one time.
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Search Functionality: Allow the user to return to the searched list after opening a model to review

Today we complete a search and then have to complete the full search over again every time we go into a blueprint to look at it. We need the ability to return to the search results after opening an item from the search list without having to start...
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Search Functionality: Allow for the curated search list to be exported

The ability to export the searched list is very important because I currently get requests from associates wanting to know what models we have relating to a topic or keyword. I complete my search and then need to screen print a list for them or ty...
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Client requests GitLab repository feature in BAMOE / DMOE

A GitLab repository feature in BAMOE or DMOE would be beneficial for version control and collaboration. It would allow team members to track changes, revert to previous versions if necessary, and work together more efficiently on projects. I belie...
2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Planned for future release

Add the ability to store multi-value Attribute data in Enterprise Content Manager

IBM Content Manager has multi-value attributes giving the ability to store more than 1 value in each record/document set of data. This is something we use all the time for our claim documents. Currently we can add the additional values during the ...
2 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Planned for future release

Extend GIT repository functionality to Enterprise Providers (gitlab, github enterprise, bitbucket)

While public github.com is a great place for open source developers to collaborate on applications, most enterprise organizations provide their own, enterprise GIT providers as well as limit access to the internet or allow public access to private...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Planned for future release