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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

Showing 2623 of 2623

User audit logging

A rest API or a feature to fetch the last login details of all users in process Center and Process servers.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Enhance ARSYSPIN STORLIMIT to accept truncated segment of sysout into the current collection

Currently, the ARSYSPIN STORLIMIT keyword allows three actions: abend, hold, and retry. We set a size limit in MB or GB, and when the collection has an incoming selection of sysout/spool file that is larger than the limit, it can only do three thi...
9 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Future consideration

Request for official list to provide detailed information on container images versions, file sizes, digest names in the latest or future versions of CP4BA, FNCM Standalone containers or on-prem CPE and client applications

Government agencies require itemized list of software applications for purchase approval purposes. The system is called TRM. Technical Reference Model (TRM) is a set of categorized software and non-commodity hardware products that is the starting ...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to delete Computers objects from RPA's Web Client

Users must have the ability to delete Computers from the Web Client. This feature is useful for several reasons, including:- Users would be able to delete computers that are no longer used, avoiding the possibility of setting wrong computers in Pr...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

Unable to rename applications captured by Task mining agent

Not possible to rename application names, uses process EXE technical name for task mining.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Future consideration

Moving Text on Gateways, Events and Links

I would like the flexibility to move the external test for gateway, events or links to align with top, bottom, left or right of the item. Currently, the text appears below the item and cannot be moved.
about 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

DATACAP - Suggestions in ICN lists

Searchs in ICN pannel lists will be more readables for users.At the moment when in a list there is an item like "Word1 Word2 Word3"If a user type : "Wo" there is a suggestion showing "Word1 Word2 Word3" If a user type "Word1" the suggestion is "Wo...
over 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Reinstate Auto color detection in Datacap v9.1.8

Auto Color detection during functionality missing in Datacap v9.1.8. This is available in v9.0 Problem statement: Our image center resources will be scanning high volume of documents both color and Black&white (gray). After scanning they uploa...
over 4 years ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Additional BWL Admin functions

The Admin panel for BWL needs additional capabilities to properly manage users.-There should be a button to send a notification to all users (or a defined subgroup)-There should be a way to define a message for users to see when they log in within...
almost 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Ability to add Watermark to process model used to indicate "Draft" or other Admin defined flag

We currently have models that are not complete but need to be Published so Viewers can review them. There is a danger of Viewers searching for models and assuming they're final or current state. Having the ability to turn on a Watermark to display...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration