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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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Define composite search criteria on more than one property template in Search Template

Over the years of using the FileNet Content management system, customer environment end up having alias property templates to describe the same index information of the document. A line of business might create a document and index a property on a...
almost 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Audit user actions and login info in ICN

As the Microsoft office add-on is a separately licensed feature to use within the ICN Virtual viewer, our client required to list out the users who use the viewer to view the office documents. As an application support team, we do not have a way t...
almost 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Log a Xpath of impacted transformation files

At the moment both BPM and BAW logs only impact transaction file (xsl or custom xsl ) but that is very challenging and time-consuming task to narrow down a root cause, so it would be great if new feature can be added to log failure xpath and impac...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Allow to connect Integration Designer to Workflow sever for UTE

As current Integration Designer 23.02 has 2 related vulnerabilities and client systems are not allowing to install complete IID UTE version due to security restriction, it would be helpful if IID allows to connect remote Runtime BAW (workflow server)
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Disable process status summary for non tw_admins users

In production, our Developers or other users are not part of tw_admins. However, they are still able to see all the Process Apps in the Process Status Summary Page. We would like to have a way to disable the visibility of all process applications ...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BPM ENvironment Dashboard

We would like to see a Dashboard that shows how our environment is performing over the month/6 months etc. CPU utilization, Calls per hours, Peak Load times etc. This is going to be of immense help as we plan on bringing in more users/use cases to...
about 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Improve inter-pod communication stability during consistent heavy load

Under consistent heavy load, Socket Timeout exceptions are observed coming from BAstudio and CPE pods.
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 4 Is a defect

Meta data fields - Free format text input

There are certain meta data fields in Blueworks which requires users to input free textFor e.g.. Risk Description, Controls etc...These fields are unlikely to be the same on different processes and will start to build up rapidly once we start buil...
about 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Warn if work is started and work already exists

When a user starts a workflow for a blueprint snapshot warn if there was already a workflow started before.
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Client is request for MFA support for IBM RPA application

Client is requesting to enhance the security of the IBM RPA application, and is requesting the implementation of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) support to continue using the RPA product. This feature will provide an additional layer of security...
11 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review