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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 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
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...

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WebPD Ability to extend code completion with custom JS server files.

Increased productivity
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

WebPD Ability to extend code completion with custom JS web files

Improve productivity
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM Configuration Manager to support WebSphere's Custom Password encryption

As of today, the IBM Configuration Manager utility supports only the IBM default xor encoding to connect to WebSphere and does the application configuration and deployments. We have enabled the WebSphere(WAS) custom password encryption in our orga...
about 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 2 Future consideration

Native Mac Ondemand Client and Server Apps

A microsoft windows environment is currently required for our team to Admin or Develop our application which uses CMOD Java API. Some of our team members use Mac which forces them to develop or run the admin client in a virtualized windows environ...
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Future consideration

Any additional function in utility jars will not be available if not creating new service flow on WebPD

On WebPD, any additional function in same utility jars will not be available if not creating new service flow on WebPD. WebPD works different from Process Designer from this perspective. The WebPD working way does not reasonable and effective. It ...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Build technical capability to leverage similar features bundled with IBM BAW standalone containers with IBM FileNet Content Manager standalone containers OR any other CNCF based offerrings to optimize the various resources like shared ICN, UMS, FileNet CPE, CMIS with BAW

We already have standalone CNCF based FileNet Content Manager containerized deployment in our environment. There was a request to build additional capability around CASE with standalone CNCF based BAW by leveraging similar capabilities like FileNe...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Logoff after finishing bot execution

If I use the logoff command in the script, my execution fails because the execution doesn't expect to terminate my bot and close the user.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Not under 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

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

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 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration