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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

All ideas

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Plugin for integrating ibm content navigator with docusign signature appliance web app for filenet repository

There is a plugin for docusign integration but it doesnt cover the use case where client clients have docusign signature appliance installed locally and want to integrate the docusign web app with ibm content navigator to make signing documents fr...
almost 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Able to create multiple start triggers into an activity

Once a starting trigger has been used BW does not allow you to enter any more starting triggers into the same activity. However you may want to represent two or more completely different triggers which could start your process at the same activity...
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Keep format when copying content from MS Word to BAW rich text editor

Our users use to copy/paste the content from MS Word to BAW rich text editor. Unfortunately, in some case the format get lost and they need to manually change it back to how it was. E.g.,if thay copy/paste a table froma a Word document, the table ...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Recorder with the PROTHEUS - TOTVS system

The TOTVS Protheus system is widely used by companies, but the IBM Automation Recorder does not work for it, the components are not found. This makes it unfeasible to automate it with the IBM Automation tool. I request the implementation in the IB...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 5 Future consideration

BAI should index decisions list data a JSON arrays in the ElasticSearch Index

List of objects in the BOM of a decision event is flattered in the JSON document. For instance, a Client object with a list of Product is represented as the JSON object: “data.ruleapp.ruleset.in.client.products.1.id”: “id1”, “data.ruleapp.ruleset....
almost 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Support for PDF documents with attachments in Daeja ViewONE Virtual Viewer

The feature would enhance the Daeja ViewONE Virtual viewer to support viewing of attachments in PDF documents. There are existing PDF documents that contain embedded attachments of other PDF files, text files, MS word documents and TIFF files. Whe...
almost 3 years ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Future consideration

Ability to download KB in a command

We have the ability to upload a knowledgebase with a single command, but we don't have the ability to download a knowledgebase with a single command.
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide Revision History Feature in WebPD

This feature is available in Desktop PD but not available in WebPD. This can be very essential for the developers to see the change history and revert back the code to any prior change point.
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Export schedules, computers and users list

For managing tenant. It would be great to have functions that allow exporting all schedules (active/inactive within timeframe) as well as computers and users in the tenant in their respective management tab
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Add Service APIs to BAW Swagger UI page

At present on the BAW Swagger UI page, we are able to see links for System, Process and User Task. It will be beneficial to developers if a link for Service APIs is also added.
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration