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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 support for decision trees in ODM Business Console

Decision trees can be a convenient way to define and group business rules that are sharing some conditions, but not most of them (when all or most conditions are shared, then decision tables are better suited) Decision tree editor is not available...
almost 4 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

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 ...
almost 3 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...
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Coach View previews in the Process Designer should resolve variables

The web Process Designer incorporates preview files to improve the WYSIWYG view of the Coach layout. However, placing a coach view in a wrapper complicates the ability of the preview to work correctly. If a configuration option is promoted to the ...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

AbstractXMLSe W could not find a known type for

Warning message:AbstractXMLSe W could not find a known type for Explanation:The current discovered WSDL does not fit the response from server. The logged messages happen if the response from server contain BOs, which are not part of the matching W...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Set SOAP fault in Web Service developed in Process Designer

Web service clients calling a Web Service developed in IBM Process Designer should be able to receive custom error messages based on error handling inside the service's implementation.Today, for any error in the service flow, the web service retur...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Adding M2M route to access all CP4BA REST APIs

Access to CP4BA components is done through the cpd route but when this route is configured to be accessible only through a corporate reverse proxy with strong authentication, there is then no available route that allows to reach the APIs of all th...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

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...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Support for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

I would like to check when we can support Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL for the following components? (cc: @Greg Micklethwaite) CP4BA - Business Automation Navigator CP4BA - Automated Document Processing CP4BA - IBM FileNet Content Manager (https://www...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Not under consideration

Ability to provide custom annotations with IER container deployment

Ability to provide custom annotations will be useful to customise the deployments , in our case we wanted to customise the deployment to add integrations with service mesh, splunk, dynatrace etc.
12 months ago in Enterprise Records 2 Future consideration