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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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Add OR option to portal saved search filters

Our internal customers have asked us to provide a way to allow filters using OR when defining saved searches. They have told us of situation where this would be helpful, such as task subject contains Build or task subject contains Verify This c...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Process Portal - Logged In User Status

We have a Business Requirement to identify active and inactive users of Process Portal and when they last logged in. As of now, there is no provision in BAW to capture this info. This request is to persist login details of the User whenever they l...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

On viewer Access "Analyze" functionality should be the available of as due to this the customer is unable to see the details of the KPI, so you are requested to kindly provide the same.

"Analyze" functionality should be available on Viewer access
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Have location identified for attachments colored in blue in File Management

In File Management, items that are marked blue does not have a location identified. It would be best if there was a location identified so that admin users can go to the process maps, determine if those attachments can be removed so that it can cl...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Plugin for integrating ibm content navigator with docusign signature appliance web app for filenet repository

There is a plugin for docusign integration but it doesnt cover the use case where client clients have docusign signature appliance installed locally and want to integrate the docusign web app with ibm content navigator to make signing documents fr...
over 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

View all workflow instance in Workplace

Hi Team, Client found Workplace only retrieves BPM process&Workstream. In order to convenient users to manage all work in one place, can we consider adding FileNet workflow into Workplace? Thank you!
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

CMOD - Oracle RAC - to be RAC aware

Currently in your whitepaper on active/active - it indicates it works with Oracle RAC but can not use the capabilities of Oracle RAC session reconnect to the other Instance. In essence CMOD is not active/active with Oracle RAC until the applicatio...
11 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

NMO should support new MS Office

NMO is a user experience well received by many business users of my client. Unfortunately, the new MS Office which Microsoft starts delivering does not support COM and VSTO add-ins. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/overview/off...
11 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Export schedules, computers and users list

For managing tenant. It would be great to have functions that allow exporting all schedules (active/inactive within timeframe) as well as computers and users in the tenant in their respective management tab
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Authorise create a branch in DC that would reuse the existing branch of a dependent projects when creating new branch.

When DC creates a branch at the decision service level it needs to be created in every dependent project.If the branch already exists DC will prevent the creation. With the edit dependencies we manually change the local maintenance branch, referen...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Planned for future release