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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).


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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:

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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,

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  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 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
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...

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Docker support

Docker support for BPM-AdvancedOnly (to run SCA modules).
about 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Retrieve Combined PDF documents when multiple documents are sent for signature via the DocuSign plugin

Current Limitation: The plugin does not currently retrieve combined PDFs when multiple documents are sent for signature. Desired Behavior: The plugin should be able to retrieve combined PDFs that include the original documents, signed documents, a...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

All Warning and Errors in WebPD section

All errors and warning from BPM artifacts should be displayed in Warnings and Errors section of the Web PD. Now only a subset is displayed and multiple types of errors are missing e.g. errors in javascript editors of Views event handlers, warning ...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Site Oriented Configuration Items Instead of Domain Level

Fixed Content Devices, configuring the URL to connect to HCP for instance, would be good to either A) have a fail over URL property (try A, if A doesn’t work try B) OR per site/jvm structure have site A connect to A HCP Head and site B connect to ...
over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 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

add ssl connection ability to bpmdc.sh

Only have secured communication allowed so not currently able to run the bpmdc.sh script to be able to dump tables for troubleshooting capabilities.
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Expanding the column Hight automatically for single select and text type a head to show the options

We have situation that requires the single select and text type a head to be in a table control and when the user try to select an option for the options section is not visible until we modified the Hight of the table cell, we need it to automatic...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Enabling the scroll bars for text type a head control

We need to enable the scroll bars for the text type a head control to limit the size of the options panel and enable the users to scroll and select what they need
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Enable and disable of automatic selection of items if the typetext-ahead option is selected on the single select control

In IBM BAW Version 24.0.1, the single select control includes a configuration option that enables the type-ahead functionality, allowing users to search within the control. However, customers have encountered an issue where, if the control contain...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Is a defect

Dark mode for case workers

Due to current laws being implemented we need to add functionality for our case workers, if they choose to, have dark mode in our Client Side Human Services. Are there any plans to add Dark mode as a user setting, just as language, for case worker...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration