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...
Share feedback 8
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
Share feedback 0

All ideas

    Native scripting for the OnDemand Client

    Please add native scripting for the CMOD OnDemand client. Other clients (Such as DocumentDirect for ViewDirect) have had this functionality for decades. The OLE and DDE APIs in the 10.5 version of the client are antiquated and difficult to program...
    over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

    FileNet Upgrade Blue/Green Deployments

    Problem Statement We currently run FileNet on Openshift. We have a blue/green deployment strategy when upgrading openshift, so our customers have 100% uptime when we perform our upgrades. Traditionally, IBM upgrades, and specifically upgrades that...
    over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

    Getting process instances from production to a test environment

    We would like to copy process instance and data from one environment to another. * Extract process instances for a given process from source environment (PS1)* Get that process instances into a target environment (PS2), with the same version of th...
    over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

    Add excel Command support to work with Confidential Excel File(Tag Internal)

    The excelCommand currently fails when processing files tagged as confidential(tag internal). As a workaround, we're forced to use the officeCommand, which experiences performance degradation when reading large Excel files. We request an improvemen...
    10 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

    Better Variable Scope

    As in other programming languages, variable scope would be very useful when calling subroutines. Subroutines should have in and out locally scoped variables that are set in the same way variables are set when calling executeScript
    about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

    Process diagram with meta data

    A view of the process blueprint as a 'Discovery Map' or 'Process Diagram' including all metadata associated with each process step. Ability to view the map and its meta data in a pictural form with linkages to details.
    over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    Ageing Report

    An overview of maps including the last update date and time to help assess the aging of the maps. 1. Creation, Publish & Last update date for maps in BWL 2. Overview of blueprints which are more than 3/6/9/12 months from last update. 3. Highli...
    over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 4 Not under consideration

    Add group feature in ICN search templates

    The customer is designing search templates in ICN where we are using the "Add Group" functionality to add different groups in the search criteria so as to have the "Or match all of these properties" condition between the groups. For the above func...
    over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

    Create query reporting tool

    We are wanting to use the IBM Studio reporting tool, however, when trying to create my queries, I only found one way, which is by dragging the preloaded tables and fields using a 'Query Generator'. That way it's unfeasible, I need to assemble my o...
    about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

    ARSLSYNC - not importing username information from LDAP.

    The ARSLSYNC process is lacking the ability to insert username details, currently it only updates the username. At the moment. The CMOD Administrator has the ability to update this information, this must be done manually. To resolve this issue, th...
    10 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Future consideration

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