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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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Function to automatically perform “Refresh snapshot to parent” in background

Customer uses “Refresh snapshot to parent” function to reflect updates in parent processes. Since customer needs to frequently perform “Refresh snapshot to parent” on the production, customer wants to automatically perform it in background.
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Request to get progress information of background execution

I would like to have progress information and result reports for processes executed in the background, such as deleting branches in ODM v9.
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

IBM RPA "Connect to Terminal" command to allow the user to specify desired screen size

Currently, IBM RPA has no option to specify a desired screen size for terminals. For example, the column and rows option cannot be configured using IBM RPA "Connect to terminal command". Some users have the requirement to visualize all the element...
7 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow different options for downloading scripts

When selecting the “download scripts” button in the Tenant, an interface should open allowing you to choose parameters to filter the scripts. Ex: -Downloading all scripts (as it is today); -Download only scripts in production; -Download only the l...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

FNCM - Provide an option to re-enable HTTP ports (9080)

Starting with FNCM 5.5.12, the HTTP ports are no longer exposed on the service created by the operator (and will apparently be removed from the pods as well).But there are use cases for which HTTP traffic is required:- on dev environment, for trou...
7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Ability to Add Custom Templates

As Blueworks is a tool that is used across our company, different departments projects are mapped from a specific view point or with a specific focus on how the Customer interacts with the process, or how a System functions etc. This leads to diff...
11 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

The "Set User Authentication" option is not available in WebPD when you remote debug into a PS.

Set User Authentication option is missing when process is run/debugged from remote process server. This option is used to run/debug human task with another test user id. Please refer PMR - TS006594335 for more details. It has videos & everythi...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

User management trail functionality for system auditing

Many BAW user companies are required to prepare SOC report (System and Organization Controls) on a regular basis. The report should include when users and groups in the system were created, when they were deleted, etc. In the BAW, users are often ...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Request to add option to allow editting business data in completed instance for admin user

Customer keeps saving completed instances for a long term from a company audit perspective. In business data of process instances, customer adds organization information for user management. After instances are completed, organization in customer’...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 6 Functionality already exists

IBM RPA to provide license usage reports on demand via Web Client

Today, IBM RPA provides users with monthly reports about license usage. To have a more accurate view, we suggest that IBM RPA provide a user interface for its users to check license metrics, such as current usage/consumption, capacity, and licensi...
7 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration