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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

Configurable option in the Datacap Application Manager for record keeping

Datacap statistics - When you process documents, Datacap tasks gather statistics that are related to each batch job and saves them in the Engine database of the application.This should be a configurable option in the Datacap Application Manager wh...
over 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Option to Include Link Location Name On Process Diagram When Printing PDF

When viewing a printed set of linked process diagrams as a PDF, there is no way for the viewer to know what process diagram a linked process activity connects to. Adding a text box to the linked process activity or some other visual cue with the l...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Update CMOD to create UUID V7 values for Unique ID fields

We would like CMOD to create UUID Version 7 (timestamp+random) instead of UUID Version 4 (all random) for Unique ID fields as it would improve the database indexes for these fields. Version 4 and version 7 UUIDs can co-exist since they are identif...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

As a user I want to automatically filter the In-basket based on the Logged in Users "Profit Center"

("Profit center" represent the logged-in user’s organization belonging/or branch office location for the logged in user). An Idea of solution: The logged in User (Profile) in Case Client should be able to add(configure) on one or more strings for ...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

arsload option to suppress creation of Unique IDs

We have recently started using the Unique ID field in application groups as a permanent key to retrieve objects from CMOD.However, when rebuilding application groups using arsdoc get and arsload, the previously assigned Unique IDs will be thrown a...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Future consideration

OCR enhancements for RPA

Requesting enhancements for Optical Character Recognition within Robotic Process Automation. Specifically OCR Mode Update, for selection accuracy, and OCR handwriting recognition, for reading handwritten text from documents.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Add Merge & Split action on Document Widget from Case Client

From the document widget in the case client, the business user can't make a merge and split on a document because the action in the context menu is not implemented. This function is available in the "browse" section.
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

Generate warnings for unused verbalizations in Rule Designer

Add a feature to Rule Designer that will automatically identify the unused or unreferenced verbalizations in a Decision Service. One of the performance issues noted in IBM's documentation is the amount of verbalized fields in a Decision Service's ...
almost 4 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

Word-Wrap Participants in Swim Lanes

Long participant names get truncated in screen views of a process map and are fully presented in printouts. For printouts, it creates challenges because the swimlane height is expanded even if it is only one activity deep. We would like it to word...
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Readability of process names

The process overview shows names shortened / truncated. The names are only fully displayed for a single process via mouse over. There is no way to make the names of all processes completely readable.Proposed Feature: Create a way to fully display ...
almost 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration