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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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- How to Automate IBM Datacap application Manager entries with out manual intervention including Admin and Engine Databases (Microsoft SQL server)

Hi Team, Case - TS008622751 is raised on the same We had discussion with Aditya from IBM Support on How to automate Application manager and to understand feature request Aditya was mentioning that we should submit a feature request with the ac...
over 3 years ago in Datacap 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

Hyperlinks for Custom Propoerties and instead of attachements

I have users that have begun embedding hyperlinks within the free text documentation fields because there is no place else for friendly formatted hyperlinks to be placed. Please add an option to define a custom property field as a hyperlink and al...
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Planned for future release

CMOD 10.5 System Log to a file

I would like to be able to see the System Log in Cloud Watch or Sumo Logic or Data Dog or Slunk like application. Most of these ingest via a file on the OS. Would be great to be able to add something to the configuration to simply log this output ...
almost 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration

External webservice Call with ANY is not supported

As part of migration from BPM 8.6 to BAW 21.0.3, imported the latest twx file (production deployed twx file) into the newly set up BAW 21.0.3 environment. After successful importing, converted all components under BPD, UI AND Service Conversions. ...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Provide some APIs to retrieve separately the important infos available in the XU Dump

Currently one has to retrieve a XU dump, or to retrieve the "DebugInfos" in the XU MBean, to be able to check some of the infos we can see in the XU Dump, such as the Connections. However, if we are just focusing on one part of those infos (such a...
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Need to add more details when user is updating "Edit a security configuration" on solution

As part of security auditing, our auditing team wants to see who is running the "Edit a security configuration" on solution. Also we want to see, actor, target, action, timestamp in the "Detail Security Configuration Log.log" All the below actions...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Needs more information

JAR packaged for building extensions and plugins avaliable from maven

To develop CP4BA plugins and extensions developers need IBM Jar-s to compile against.The only instruction points to download them from the runtimehttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/configure-your-environment-use-case-mananager-java-api-ibm-cloud-pa...
12 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

Audit requirement in IBM BAW considering the login page of Process Portal

Audit requirement in IBM BAW considering the login page of Process Portal 1. Allowing users to reset the password on the first time login or when the password is expired. 2. Users able to change the password, set password expiry based on the passw...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Download PDF report

It would be good to have the option to download/print the reports as PDF or some other format, as this is currently not possible (not all scenarios are shown in the print through the browser, scenarios are not expanded to show all tests...).
over 8 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration