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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

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Secret Key Change without restarting ARSOBJD

JPMC has a requirement to change their Storage Set Secret Key every 12 hours. The new Key is not picked up until ARSOBJD is recycled. JPMC says they cannot restart their systems every time a secret key is changed.
10 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration

Allow assigning of activity type to multiple activities at once

Would like the ability to assign activity types to multiple activities at the same time. This would save time and effort.
10 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Limit usage of cmwebsvc (SOAP+REST)

End users should only be able to access CM via Content Navigator. They should not be able to use cmwebsvc to interact with the library server. We need a way to restrict usage of cmwebsvc to specific user, groups, etc.
10 months ago in Content Manager (CM8) 0

A blocklist of MIME types that cannot be uploaded.

BAW is able to configure an allowlist using the <document-attachment-accepted-mime-types> parameter. And, BAW can disable of document upload security by the <disable-document-attachment-accepted-mime-types> parameter.But, There is a lo...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Extend cloud ODM with RMI Java Call

In our premise environment we use ODM for saving decision table with RMI and execute it with soap call, we would like to have the same feature in ODM on Cloud
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Allow for additional colors to be named even though the color legend has preferred colors

When preferred colors are set in the color legend you're not able to also use additional colors, it's one or the other. So when colors have been set in the customization you are only able to see those color labels. I'd like to be able to set speci...
10 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

"Go To Designer" button in eclipse which enable Authors to go to last worked item is missing in WEB PD

Authors can not to go to their last opened/worked item (toolkit/PA service)like eclipse. "Go To Designer" button in eclipse which enable Authors to go to last worked item is missing in WEB PD. This impact efficiency of Authors as they have to spen...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add bulk task reassign in the portal

The BPM currently allows the reassignment of a single task, but is lacking a bulk task reassign. Customers wanting to reassign multiple tasks.
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

WEB PD does not maintain last open session/page like eclipse PD and default always to process app tab

WEB PD does not maintain last page session like eclipse PD and default always to process app tab. For example : When you click on "back to workflow center" it always go to process app tab even you were in toolkits tabs last time or opened a toolki...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

artificial intelligence robots powered by quantum battery for snow removal etc

AI robots working for snow removal in countries like Canada, Russia, Europe-nations Provide etc
10 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration