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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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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.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Reinstate Auto color detection in Datacap v9.1.8

Auto Color detection during functionality missing in Datacap v9.1.8. This is available in v9.0 Problem statement: Our image center resources will be scanning high volume of documents both color and Black&white (gray). After scanning they uploa...
over 2 years ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Provide Out of Box Customization Option for Email Template(from Portal)

This is a useful feature to be considered where developers/admins can configure the default process portal email notification template by customizing - HTML content Process variables including exposed business data
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

When using Oauth 1.0, a required set of parameters need to be on every request. They are: oauth_consumer_key, oauth_token, oauth_signature_method, oauth_timestamp, oauth_nonce and oauth_version

Tools such as postman, allow the user to populate only the consumer oauth_consumer_key, oauth_token, auth_signature_method, and the tool itself generate all other params (as they are timestamps or random) In IBM RPA, we need not only to create eac...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Human-in-the-loop Command improvement

Functionality that would be helpful is if our human in the loop commands had these additional functionality. Multiple Select Options - Have the ability to have customizable Buttons and dropdowns by feeding in a list Allow for message box command t...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Add the option for single instance of business objects as well as lists of business objects.

At the moment when creating a business object in a Case Solution it can only be added as a list of the business object. Since Case talks to BPM(process designer) and that does utilise single instances of business objects to prevent repetition, sho...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide Project Management functionality in Decision Center

Decision Center Business Console is missing same basic management functionality at the project level (both for Decision Model and Decision Services projects): duplicate a project rename a project Note that this functionality is available in Rule D...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

HPE/Scality RING storage support with FileNet Image Services

HPE/Scality RING storage support with FileNet Image Services Case number: TS006578461 FileNet Image Services (current version) on Solaris 11 with a remote Oracle 19c database We are planning to migrate a storage platform for the FileNet/P...
over 2 years ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Not under consideration

HPE/Scality RING storage support with FileNet/P8

Case number: TS006578497 FileNet /P8 (current version) on Linux with a remote Oracle 19c database We are planning to migrate a storage platform for the FileNet/P8 app as follows: From: Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) - REST API To: HPE/Scal...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Functionality already exists

Autogen email

When an admin adds a user to BWL - autogen email puts the original names in the email asking them to contact that individual for issues or if their invitation link has expired. User reaches out for troubleshooting to the "from" admin in the origin...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration