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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...

All ideas

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Add a Pan view window to the process diagram display

Add an option to have a Pan & Zoom window that appears within the Process Diagram view so the user can see the entire Process Diagram in a thumbnail. The functionality should be similar to what is in Visio for the Pan & Zoom window.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Enhance ARSYSPIN STORLIMIT to accept truncated segment of sysout into the current collection

Currently, the ARSYSPIN STORLIMIT keyword allows three actions: abend, hold, and retry. We set a size limit in MB or GB, and when the collection has an incoming selection of sysout/spool file that is larger than the limit, it can only do three thi...
11 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Future consideration

Request for official list to provide detailed information on container images versions, file sizes, digest names in the latest or future versions of CP4BA, FNCM Standalone containers or on-prem CPE and client applications

Government agencies require itemized list of software applications for purchase approval purposes. The system is called TRM. Technical Reference Model (TRM) is a set of categorized software and non-commodity hardware products that is the starting ...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

FNCM - Provide an option to re-enable HTTP ports (9080)

Starting with FNCM 5.5.12, the HTTP ports are no longer exposed on the service created by the operator (and will apparently be removed from the pods as well).But there are use cases for which HTTP traffic is required:- on dev environment, for trou...
almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Kirk Clarke

While the Participant of multiple activities can be updated but selecting and moving to a new swimlane, updating other details can only done per individual activity. This is time consuming, repetitive and therefore to the best use of time or user ...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Allow Viewers to Comment on Discovery Maps and Process Diagrams

Why is it Useful: This allows the Viewer community which only have Viewer Licenses to collaborate on Discovery Maps and Process Diagrams. This is an essential part of the mainstream process mapping, getting customer input and consensus. Who would ...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

To have option available for Deleting theTraining Space from archive

All Editors have their own training Space. When an editor is leaving the organisation, the BWL admins move that particular user's training space to archive. Currently we have close to 1900 training spaces in archive.
about 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Need ability to rearrange columns in search results in ICN

Users require ability to rearrange columns in IBM Content Navigator (ICN) document search results by dragging them left or right. Also, need ability to add and remove columns from search results without having to click "Results Display" button in ...
over 6 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Request to add option to allow editting business data in completed instance for admin user

Customer keeps saving completed instances for a long term from a company audit perspective. In business data of process instances, customer adds organization information for user management. After instances are completed, organization in customer’...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 6 Functionality already exists

IBM RPA to provide license usage reports on demand via Web Client

Today, IBM RPA provides users with monthly reports about license usage. To have a more accurate view, we suggest that IBM RPA provide a user interface for its users to check license metrics, such as current usage/consumption, capacity, and licensi...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration