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:

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
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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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All ideas

    Changing default column headers in Datacap job monitor to Uppercase

    In Datacap Navigator Job Monitor default column headers are in title case format.Customer managed to change custom columns in uppercase format using recommendations DB2 using https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7165575However, same recommendati...
    10 months ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

    Snapshot deployment PALException should be more meaningful

    Problem description: Snapshot deployment / installation always throw generic PALException exceptions and not the actual cause of the issue. You need to dig through logs to find the actual cause of the problem Improvement Proposal: Instead of the g...
    over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Fixed Content Device Staging using Database Storage Location

    With the move to containerization we are finding that support of and implementation of NFS or other mounted file systems like Network Attached Storage (NAS) or Storage Attached Network (SAN) are no longer acceptable. We have requirements however f...
    almost 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Not under consideration

    Enable scesim files editing on Canvas

    For editing scesim files using Canvas, it only supports BAMOE Developer Tools at the time. BAMOE Canvas is not supported. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibamoe/9.0.x?topic=guide-business-central However client is hoping to replace Business Central wi...
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 3 Future consideration

    Functions for combining two words.

    There is following functions that it is able to use as analytics queries.”Queries”https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/process-mining/1.14.2?topic=analytics-queriesFunctions to combine two words is not present.For example, in terms of SQL statements, we ex...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Planned for future release

    Functions for convert from date type to char type, from char type to date type.

    There is following functions that it is able to use as analytics queries.”Queries”https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/process-mining/1.14.2?topic=analytics-queriesAccording to the above article, There is no functions to convert from date type to character...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Planned for future release

    Allow admin to globally prevent user amending their email and business unit

    We use the Business Unit flag to allocate users costs to specific cost centres Currently, the user can edit that data at any time which breaks our cost allocation reporting Please can you add a admin option to make this data read only for the user...
    about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 5 Planned for future release

    FileNet tolerance for multiple LDAP directory configurations in case one of LDAP configuration is down

    Please refer to previous FER https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/BACSD-I-104 In some users scenario, Filenet has multiple LDAP Directory configurations,DCOs. For some directory configuration only for external user authentication, LDAP server might not be ...
    over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

    Ability to retain column re-sort and re-sizing in Workplace

    In the Heritage Portal, a user was able to resort columns, claim a task and return to the saved search list. When they returned, the columns still maintained the sort that was in place prior to claiming the task. In the new Responsive Portal, the ...
    about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    Support Secure String Inputs for Remote Bot Execution via API and User Prompts

    Currently, IBM RPA lacks the ability to: Accept secure strings (masked/encrypted inputs) dynamically during bot execution (e.g., via Input Box commands). Pass secure strings as parameters through API-triggered bot executions, The only way to use t...
    10 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

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