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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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Chronological order of document annotations in a grid

When the displayed document has many pages and being collaborated by multiple stages by the multiple users, over a period of document review, various users will end up creating various text annotations throught the document in various pages. It is...
about 1 year ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Future consideration

CPE: Continuous content consistency check sweep for validation of ingested content

Some customers may want to continuously validate their ingested content, at some time after it is fully stored. The current Content Consistency Sweep job is a one and done function that you have to re-create every time that you want to run a consi...
about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

View/export participant (role)-based data across all processes for function profile

I would like to view & export all process role based data from all processes to be able to create a function profile. We have roles that are participants that perform activities in multiple processes. The same role is, next to a participant in...
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Decryption of Encrypted Strings in Datacap Custom Actions

We had written a custom action about 5 years ago which connected to a database via an encrypted connection string stored in the .APP file. At the time, we discovered that custom actions are unable to decrypt encrypted strings: https://www.ibm.com/...
about 2 years ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Sticky Note pop up disappearing when moving from one page to another page in Daeja Viewer

If a document is having 5 pages and user has created a sticky note on page number 1 and user is editing the sticky note and if user wants any info to be copied from page number 5 , then the pop up is disappearing if user moves from one page to ano...
about 2 years ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Future consideration

Business Performance Center should support unmapped elastic search.

While CP4BA 21.0.3 had enhancements on how the Event Pipeline configuration changes are pushed, the ability to configure event transformation, the ability to define additional indexes and the ability to decide what gets pushed and where was alread...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Future consideration

Secret Key Change without restarting ARSOBJD

JPMC has a requirement to change their Storage Set Secret Key every 12 hours. The new Key is not picked up until ARSOBJD is recycled. JPMC says they cannot restart their systems every time a secret key is changed.
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration

Allow assigning of activity type to multiple activities at once

Would like the ability to assign activity types to multiple activities at the same time. This would save time and effort.
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Limit usage of cmwebsvc (SOAP+REST)

End users should only be able to access CM via Content Navigator. They should not be able to use cmwebsvc to interact with the library server. We need a way to restrict usage of cmwebsvc to specific user, groups, etc.
about 1 year ago in Content Manager (CM8) 0

Allow for additional colors to be named even though the color legend has preferred colors

When preferred colors are set in the color legend you're not able to also use additional colors, it's one or the other. So when colors have been set in the customization you are only able to see those color labels. I'd like to be able to set speci...
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration