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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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When using Oauth 1.0, a required set of parameters need to be on every request. They are: oauth_consumer_key, oauth_token, oauth_signature_method, oauth_timestamp, oauth_nonce and oauth_version

Tools such as postman, allow the user to populate only the consumer oauth_consumer_key, oauth_token, auth_signature_method, and the tool itself generate all other params (as they are timestamps or random) In IBM RPA, we need not only to create eac...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Add Audit Trail to every Process Mining action

Users need to be able to audit every action performed in a Process Mining project. Editing tasks, rules and data sources may have a huge impact in an environment, so for every change we need to be able to track who performed and when.
11 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Content Engine is not able to detect the max available space of a filesystem attached to a storage area

Recently we have been told by IBM Support that Filenet Content Engine is not able to detect the max size of a filesystem assigned to an storage area when having a specific configuration. Regarding to help we thought that setting STORAGE AREA MAXIM...
11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Customization of Blueworks invite basis the Licence type

Ability to customize the content of BWL invite while sending invite to new users basis the licences. Currently we have one common content for all type of Licenses. Instead we can have the predefined template with the customised content basis the l...
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Attachments size limit

My idea is to introduce an option to set an attachment size limit, so the account Admin can specify how many kB can have an attachment. It could be a part of account Customization in the Admin area.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Case Builder to delete solution properties from runtime configuration

Currently when a solution designer deletes a solution property in Case Builder, the property is only deleted from the solution definition. The property stays available in the runtime data. This behavior is not intuitive for developers and business...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

align all the BAW components using the same latest dojo version

-each component below is using different old dojo version, which is known with multiple security vulnerabilities -please apply the latest stable version of dojo 1.16.4 Web Process Inspector (dojo 1.10.5) Alert Specification (dojo 1.10.5) Process A...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Show custom properties and EDS support for Recycle bin feature of IBM COntent Navigator

THere is a recyclebin plugin for IBM COntent Navigator. However, the plugin only shows the DOcument title and other system properties along with Class Name. However, these detaiils are not sufficent to identify the document as the document is iden...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Allow use of Windows Auth for managing On-Prem database.

Right now only SQL auth is supported for managing and installing on prem database. Due to security concerns, using SQL auth is not always supported within enterprises.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Provide full MSAA support for windows controls, or not at all

IBM RPA only provides partial MSAA support for windows control operations. MSAA addressing for windows controls & UI elements is used by some competing products.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration