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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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Web PD: Ability to switch between snapshots when connected to online Workflow Server

In our BAW environment, our Dev team can connect to online Workflow servers and debug the instances. However, if we need to switch between snapshots: 1. We will have to navigate out of Web PD process inspector 2. Select the application and a new s...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide Daeja View Toolkit for BAW

We use Daeja View embedded into BAW using a toolkit originally created by an IBM employee (https://us-south.git.cloud.ibm.com/schwarzs/bpm-ui-Daeja.Document.Viewer/-/tree/master). This toolkit is very useful but is now showing it's age as BAW has ...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 8 Future consideration

Provide verbalization allowing to delete tags on Decision artifacts from Decision Center queries

Whereas verbalization exists to add/update tags to Decision artifacts from Queries Find all business rules Do set the property "First Tag" to"Done" for each business rule or Find all business rules such that the tag "First Tag" of each business ru...
27 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Support for PFX Certificates in the HTTP Request Command

Currently, the HTTP Request command in IBM RPA does not support sending certificates, which prevents secure communication via mTLS. To address this limitation, we propose adding a feature that allows attaching PFX certificates directly in the HTTP...
about 2 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

Ability of still using maintenance.admin after enabling SAML

Once you enable SAML, it's not possible to access Process Mining instance with maintenance.admin. This would be a good idea in case you have SAML configuration issues, because you'd still be able to access the product, without running through the ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Ablity to Store Bots in folders in Control Center

Currently, all bots that get published are stored in a root folder. In a large organization, this can be come hard to manage. If the product would allow folders to be used that would be extremely helpful.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

A bulk update facility in updating same data fields with the same data for multiple process\activity boxes.

A bulk update facility is now becoming a must. We are waiting days and sometimes weeks updating the same data fields with the same data, and wasting hours and hours of time on this and this time can definitely be spent on more pressing items of work.
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

use of MIME type application/pdf in OpenAPI Rest service invocation

Business case use the need of implementation of PDF in rest api services as evolving technology
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Filenet & Azure Blob storage integration

As of now, FileNet and Azure Blob can be configured together only using shared key. However, due to known risks and issues shared key access is disabled in some organizations. Alternative way of making this connection (e.g. using Azure Active Dire...
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Under review

Validation of digital signatures in Viewer including informations about signatures and certificates

Today, with more and more documents being processed and approved in electronic form only, digital signatures are a natural part of these documents. Daeja Viewer must be able to correctly display these digital signatures and information about them....
about 2 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Under review