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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

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Specify the display type when in a Space View

Allow ability to change view of Spaces to be list view, detail view, etc. The view when in a Space today is like a Grid view. In some cases, it would be easier to see things in list view than grid view, especially on different screen sizes. There ...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Be able to move property values up and down in the list on the Details window

Would like to be able to move values within a property on the Details edit window up and down to specify an order. Today the only way to specify and order to the values is to enter them in a specific order. Therefore, if a value needs to be insert...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Improve tenant integration

We would like to work with a 3-tier system as follows: 1. tenant = bank 2. Organisation = business domain 3. process = type of process by naming convention The handling of tenants could be improved to level such as organisations
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Future consideration

Remove inconsistency for activity work time resolution

When managing "activity working time", the smallest number you can store is 1 minute. When defining "working time" in BPA it offers to work in seconds. In order for both to work together appropriately, "activity working time" should also allow for...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Planned for future release

Support Selection Simple type

Support Selection Simple type
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Use local time-zone in email-search-fliter command

We have to manually calculate the timezone difference before input into the email search filter. Is it possible to give choose-timezone options or use-local-time zone option for this command? It is really inconvented to calculate timezone differen...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

CPE: Continuous content consistency check sweep for validation of ingested content

Some customers may want to continuously validate their ingested content, at some time after it is fully stored. The current Content Consistency Sweep job is a one and done function that you have to re-create every time that you want to run a consi...
almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

ICN - consistent way of sending mails with content or link and ability to set basic mail-properties

At the moment there are several different implementations of sending an email from ICN. Which way is used depends on incomprehensible criterias: HTML based sending on the server via an smtp-connection with or without document attachment. Disadvant...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Activation of ICC4SAP-Plugin for ICN only in desktops where really needed

Current situation is: If we want to use the ICC4SAP-Plugin in a specific administrative ICN desktop there is a need of enabling the ICC4SAP-plugin in another desktop (the one that is defined as default desktop) in order make the plugin work correc...
over 2 years ago in Content Collector for SAP 0 Future consideration

Decryption of Encrypted Strings in Datacap Custom Actions

We had written a custom action about 5 years ago which connected to a database via an encrypted connection string stored in the .APP file. At the time, we discovered that custom actions are unable to decrypt encrypted strings: https://www.ibm.com/...
almost 2 years ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration