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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 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...

All ideas

Validation check passing in rules authoring but failing in test execution

Having some issue with validate check passing in DC where a specific import is missing, i.e. import com.abc.api.product.applicant.Income. It’s passing validate check however later on our testing is throwing errors. Can we check in DC if there is a...
9 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Not under consideration

Unique Rule ID - Require an unique rule id to be generated for every rule before storing to github

Currently there is no unique rule id or number for each rule.Require an unique rule id to be generated for every rule before storing to github.Unable to uniquely identify the rules or order by id
9 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Not under consideration

Redhat Decision Manager and Github Sync

The code is written in redhat decision manager and it is synced into Github for version controlling. In a scenario when we delete a branch(s) from RedHat – then the action is not synced into Github. The two solutions are not talking to each other ...
9 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

An Efficient way to pause in bulk a bunch of different instances

We had the need to pause all the process instances related to a single BPD process definition (BPMn) due to the maintenance of a remote server used by them. We had more that 150k instances running only on that process application. We tried to use ...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enable the Process Instance Migration tool to support Mutual TLS on BAMOE 8.x

Customer has security restricitons that prevent them to store user and password credentials in plain text.
9 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

Add date time range filter to the process instances search

All IBM RPA users who has process created to their projects
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

For container deployments, make it possible to store the Task Manager logs in the same directory than the Liberty logs

In container deployments, logs are usually captured from the pod's standard output by a log shipping mechanism. All the logs that are stored in ${server.output.dir}/logs/${hostname} (those are Liberty variables), such as the Liberty logs (console....
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Defaulting and Filtering for ICN Simple Search

Defaulting Search on Document Class instead of Object Store Right now, when using the ICN Simple Search Feature, you are allowed to select from a list of Object Stores that you want to perform your search in. We are wondering if it can allow us to...
almost 4 years ago in Content Navigator 1 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 ...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to copy text without editing a sticky note

in Daeja currently we only hover to show the sticky note contents or Edit it to copy the contents. Customer has users trying to copy information from a sticky note to another system. They are unable to see the contents of the sticky note without h...
over 1 year ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Future consideration