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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

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Artificial intellegence robotic application for cooking, cleening toilets etc etc

Artificial intellegence robotic application powered by quantum battery for every type of kitchen- cooking based applications operated in every types of languages etc and for cleaning purposes Dress washing etc useful in hotels, expensive homes etc...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists

When a user specifies a 'Date Time' property for an in-basket filter, it should resolve to also include seconds

When a user specifies the 'date' value for an in-basket filter with the criteria being 'equal', the result set should include all work items that are associated with that date. For example, if the user specifies 5/5/2020, the results should includ...
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

Remove System toolkits from showing up in list of Orphaned toolkit snapshots

We use the results provided by Performance Dashboard (SYSPERFDB) in Process Admin console to determine the orphaned toolkits for cleanup or maintenance. We have noticed that the System toolkits are showing up in the list. There is a chance that us...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Show number of open tasks per saved search/dashboard on overview in Process Portal

Users need to know which saved search has open tasks for them to do without having to select that search, to know if there's anything to do.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Files OST

Generate a command to obtain the entire OST file through an Imap connection instead of just the information.
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

IBM Process Mining to allow dashboard filters to be applied on the event level

Currently, IBM Process Mining only allows filters to be applied as a case attribute. It means that the tasks and parameters listed would display data for cases. Customers need to display filtered data regarding each event, depending on how the das...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

1og4j2.x support in CM 8.6

Customer wants CM 8.6 to use log4j2.x. Currently, log4j1.x is used in CM 86, which is not maintained any more
over 2 years ago in Content Manager (CM8) 0 Not under consideration

Support NetApp ONTAP indefinite retention

For a LONG time NetApp was the favorite storage of customers around here (because of simplicity and functionality) but has lost a LOT of momentum as soon as customers were seriously looking into doing GPDR retention which needs EBR as a foundation...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

When upgrading BAW, Installation Manager should fail if file permission settings prevent the profiles from being updated.

I recently did an upgrade to BAW, and I ran into a situation where Installation Manager ended with warnings, saying " Configuration errors were detected during the installation." In a support case, we determined that this was because of our unusua...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide App snapshot name in Process Admin

I would like to see the snapshot acronyms of process apps in the list of Apps in the Process Admin - Installed App tab just next to the App acronyms.
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration