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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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import attribute data via api or excel

Currently for any process map in blueworks where a task is created any attribute or metadata linked to the task has to be entered directly in blueworks. Using the existing exports to excel its easy to identify where data is missing. it would be mu...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Saving Solution in Filenet Process Designer also check-in files in ACCE

When editing solutions, changes made in FilenetPD are not automatically save/check-in to Design Object Store after "Save". The objects show as check-out in ACCE console. The changes are check-in when the solution is commit/deploy in Case Builder. ...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Timeline Visualizer to support large database

We are having issue with their Timeline Visualizer in Case Manager/BAW does not display any activities comments. The root cause is due to the Case History database is huge and taking from 5-10 minutes to load in our back-end. Case Timeline Visuali...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

CP4BA and WfPS - Deploy CP4BA Operator in a separate namespace from the namespace where the workload is being installed

We are installing CP4BA and WfPS at a customer with requirements for the operators to be deployed in a separate namespace from the namespace where the workload is being installed.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0

Show list of jobs in web portal when you enter page and sort in descending date order

When opening https://eu1app.wdgautomation.com/#/en-US/scripts/scripts/jobs, the list of jobs are not in any particular order. Expected behaviour would be to see them in descending date/time order (by either Start or End). To view the latest jobs ...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Custom Header Propagation and Exposure in BAW

The requirement here is for BAW to propagate custom headers that are used to invoke a process/service flow throughout the entire process/server flow. Those custom headers may contain values such as an application correlation ID. The custom header ...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

There is no auto-mapping for tracking fields

When you map tracking groups in the Tracking tab of an activity, you have to map individual fields one-by-one. There is no auto-map functionality available.
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

To support a png with this combination of the colortype is 0 and the bit depth is 1 in Daeja Virtual Viewer

Customer is getting the issue when rendering PNG file. After investigation, Daeja is not rendering this PNG file because of the followings:For the PNG file, the colortype is 0. Colortype is a single-byte integer that describes the interpretation o...
about 1 year ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Future consideration

align all the BAW components using the same latest dojo version

-each component below is using different old dojo version, which is known with multiple security vulnerabilities -please apply the latest stable version of dojo 1.16.4 Web Process Inspector (dojo 1.10.5) Alert Specification (dojo 1.10.5) Process A...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Show custom properties and EDS support for Recycle bin feature of IBM COntent Navigator

THere is a recyclebin plugin for IBM COntent Navigator. However, the plugin only shows the DOcument title and other system properties along with Class Name. However, these detaiils are not sufficent to identify the document as the document is iden...
about 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration