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
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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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All ideas

    JSON Support in Datacap

    Modern capture pipelines increasingly rely on JSON payloads (APIs, webhooks, ...). Today, handling JSON in Datacap requires custom scripts or brittle intermediates. Add native, high-performance JSON capabilities: Both Ingestion and Parsing
    10 months ago in Datacap 2 Needs more information

    Retain column width and sorting changes on Process Portal

    Our business representatives have requested to have Process Portal retain latest changes to column widths and sorting on saved searches, on a per-user basis. The inability to do this causes steps to be repeated frequently and is frustrating to the...
    over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Fixed Content Device Staging using Database Storage Location

    With the move to containerization we are finding that support of and implementation of NFS or other mounted file systems like Network Attached Storage (NAS) or Storage Attached Network (SAN) are no longer acceptable. We have requirements however f...
    over 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Not under consideration

    MAIN Branch Protection

    Itaú adopts the strategy of maintaining the MAIN branch as the single and reliable version of the project, ensuring that only the MAIN branch is used for production deployment. Deployment Policy: All rule changes must be carried out in new branche...
    10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

    Add support for Unicode characters via the NVARCHAR data type to the out of the box SQL connectors in the System Data toolkit

    We have a use case for needing to insert unicode characters into a MS SQL Server database. MS SQL Server supports unicode via the NVARCHAR data type, but we prefer to use parameterized queries and there is no supported NVARCHAR type for the SQLPar...
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Unify approaches in generated SQL files in preparation phase

    Is there a reason why the SQLs for capabilities don't have a unified structure for all components? https://github.com/icp4a/cert-kubernetes/blob/24.0.0-IF003/scripts/helper/database-sql/postgresql/baa/create-baa-dbscript.sh#L41 CREATE USER ${dbuse...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

    Unknown variables not marked as validation errors

    We have the following scenario in the Web Process Designer: The development team usually needs to perform maintenance, cleaning and restructuring of the different ProcessApps, depending on the business requirements. For this we obviously need to ...
    over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Separate Participants from Business Owners & Experts in Glossary

    In the Glossary, Participants are grouped together with Business Owners & Experts. However, the nature of these are very different. A "participant" (swim lane) should rarely be the name of an individual (Jane Doe), but should be their role in ...
    over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

    IBM Process Mining to enable license metrics notification

    Today, some customers want to monitor their licensing metrics, such as processes, users, and events, and be notified about them. We suggest functionality that counts these metrics and sends notifications when limits are exceeded
    over 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2 Planned for future release

    Extend ARSLSYNC utility to sync more attributes/fields

    Using the CMoD arslsync utility. Rabobank would like to include additional attributes/fields from the LDAP (Active Directory), e.g. a special RabobankID that is used for Audit purposes. unfortunatelly such a function is not present in arslsync. As...
    over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration

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