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:

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...
Share feedback 8
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
Share feedback 0

All ideas

    Get attributes of a web element

    Currently, if someone wants to get the href from an anchor tag (<a>), it needs to get the raw html and use regex. It would benefit everyone to get a dictionary of all html attributes of a particular element, that way, anyone can easily inspe...
    about 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Process Inspector should allow to filter Process Instances on Process Start Date

    BAW Process Inspector allows to filter processes by Status, Sev. Type, Process App, Person and Last Modified Date. In addition to these, Process Inspector should allow to FILTER on Process Start date to allow Business Analysts to dig into process ...
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Changing default column headers in Datacap job monitor to Uppercase

    In Datacap Navigator Job Monitor default column headers are in title case format.Customer managed to change custom columns in uppercase format using recommendations DB2 using https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7165575However, same recommendati...
    over 1 year ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

    Ability to change default sorting of documents attached to a case

    When users rely on document attachments for work on cases, they may need to sort them on other fields than the document name.
    about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Functionality already exists

    Support the use of cmisURI in repository.properties for CMIS spec v1.1

    There is a functionality need for this feature and hence it was added/supported in CMIS spec v1.0. The same should be supported in CMIS spec 1.1 especially that CMIS spec 1.1 is recommended by IBM over spec 1.0.
    8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Mask or Disable Version Disclosure in /DecisionService Root Endpoint

    Currently, sending a simple unauthenticated GET request to the root context of the Decision Service (e.g., https://[Server]/DecisionService) returns a plain HTML page displaying the full product name, version number, and specific build level (e.g....
    8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Not under consideration

    Add a Testing Decision Operation run configuration in the RD plugin for ODM On Cloud

    Such a run configuration is currently available in RD on premise, but not in the RD for ODM On Cloud ! This execution configuration complements the Tests and Simulation local menu, allowing you to verify a project and generate an Excel scenario fi...
    8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    Allow Option to Disconnect a Line from a task

    Whenever a gateway is introduced in a process flow, the main path splits into 2 paths, and in most cases join back together downstream. Often, I need to modify the point at which the join needs to occur. In the current state, i have to delete the ...
    almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    Support Secure String Inputs for Remote Bot Execution via API and User Prompts

    Currently, IBM RPA lacks the ability to: Accept secure strings (masked/encrypted inputs) dynamically during bot execution (e.g., via Input Box commands). Pass secure strings as parameters through API-triggered bot executions, The only way to use t...
    over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

    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.
    almost 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Under review

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