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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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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...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

API Access for RPA Robot Scheduling and Execution Data Outside the Tenant

Enable API access to the scheduling and execution data of RPA robots, currently available only on internal tenant or when using the dashboard. This API would allow users to build custom, external dashboards, for example, to display on corporate mo...
about 1 month ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Submitted

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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 7 Planned for future release

Allow for a copy between branches to preserve object IDs in WebPD

If you are copying assets between branches/tracks when you use the default copy in WebPD it will automatically generate new PO IDs. This will cause dependencies to break if you are using a toolkit and for instance migration to encounter problems d...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

More granulated control for e-mail notifications

Currently, it is only possible to enable or disable in the Workplace profile the option to receive e-mail notifications when a task is assigned. When a user start a process and the first task is assigned to the user or a launch UI is associated wi...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enhancing a IBM Datacap ruleset to capture additional data to the xml file for exporting to FileNET repository.

IBM Datacap "OutlookMessageToImageAndAttachment" ruleset currently does not stored the attachment name in the xml file as a variable. Unlike vscan it store the attachment name in the xml file as a variable. Customer would like to have the "Outlook...
22 days ago in Datacap 1 Submitted

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...
4 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Under review

Translation mechanism for ICN custom menus

When changing regional settings, no translation mechanism exists to manage localized values of custom menus is ICN. The custom menu value should be able to be localized, and not be a fixed value. For example : I create new actions through a plugin...
6 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Use of OpenAPI Properties allOf, oneOf, anyOf

Business Case need use of the allOf, oneOf, anyOf provided from Rest OpenAPI
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

DATACAP - Suggestions in ICN search

It would be really cool that we can filter the job monitor by the "task start" column using a variable for the current day, instead of type the date.
23 days ago in Datacap 0 Submitted