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).


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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:

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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 7
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

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Allow use of Windows Auth for managing On-Prem database.

Right now only SQL auth is supported for managing and installing on prem database. Due to security concerns, using SQL auth is not always supported within enterprises.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Provide full MSAA support for windows controls, or not at all

IBM RPA only provides partial MSAA support for windows control operations. MSAA addressing for windows controls & UI elements is used by some competing products.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Text Annotation Using Rich Text Formatting

The addition of Text Annotation is greatly appreciated and allowing rich text formatting would make it much more useful. (You give a mouse a cookie...)
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

ICN's two transaction approach does exactly the opposite of "maximize performance" and causing large file upload large files (3gb and up) to fail with access_denied errors

ICN does creation of a document with content as two separate transactions, one in which an empty document is created and a second updating the document to add content and check it in. In that sequent the problem is that if the creator of the docum...
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

Provide REST API capability to create a BAW group

Customer needs the ability to create a BPM/BAW group, without being directly present on the server or requiring custom code.Currently a customer must be present in Process Admin Console's "Group Management" to create a group.The only API currently...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Move Process from Within

Currently you can only move a blueprint between workspaces using the dropdown menu next to the process name while in the workspace listing. Need to be able to move the blueprint while inside the model without having to exit the model first. This h...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Show the status of a sweep in the list view of ACCE. Show if it is enabled and if it is completed or still running. The completion status would not apply to Sweep Policies

Admins would benefit from this because they could see sweep job status at a glance without need to query the database directly.
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

This is an enhancement request to the cleanup APIs

The report API response and the status API response don't have the start time, end time, time taken information. Adding that will be really helpful for us to test it in QA first, then plan the cleanup activity for production.Also in the status API...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Patch ruleapp deployment for rule releases

Instead of generating a full ruleapp jar all the time, if a patch file is created to deploy only the new changes (for both rule execution server and embedded execution, also for both file-based and DB-based deployment), it may help to optimize the...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Add REST APIs to retrieve all active task list of specific task including the task claimed by others and bulk assign some of them

The below requirement was asked by business from time to time in different projects. As a supervisor with allocation privileges, he / she want to view all the active tasks of specific user task including the available tasks and assigned (to self...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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