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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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Revert input/output variable mapping to classic view to remove extra steps

Users are facing challenges with BAW 23.0.1's new variable mapping process, finding it cumbersome due to extra clicks and complexity, especially in complex projects. The classic mapping offered quicker, more straightforward access to variable usag...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Export/import of project security details of a decision service as Decision Center REST API

Applying project security of a decision service through automation can be achieved by having this feature as OOTB API. This will help in reducing manual work of applying project security via Administration tab every time new decision service is cr...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

As a business user, I would like to be able to perform rule analysis in the decision center

To enhance the quality of our services, we need analysis capabilities similar to those already available with the Rule Designer
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Disable the administrator's ability to view and edit task data on Instance level

PROCESS INSPECTOR IN PROCESS ADMIN CONSOLE ALLOWS ADMINISTRATORS TO ACCESS and EDIT PROCESS INSTANCE DATAProcess Inspector on the Process Admin Console allows administrators to access and edit instance data on level of process instances and task i...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add REST API (+ ANT Tasks) to delete Groups and Users from the Business Console users registry

When you use the DC REST APIPOST /v1/repository/users-roles-registryto add a new user to the existing list, it worksYou can then see that user in the BC Console Administration / Users tabBut unfortunately you have no APIs to remove users / groups ...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Store last user logged in datetime information.

right now there is no data about last login datetime for BPM users Store last user logged in datetime information.
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

multi select image feature from photo gallery in navigator mobile app

-What is the business scenario? users should be able to upload multiple images from mobile photo gallery the same way navigator web application allow users to upload multiple files. -Is the request only for iOS? Yes mainly for iOS but you should c...
3 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Datacap Fastdoc ability to configure the Verify panel to show the Page Type.

1)Description - What would the requested feature do? On the FastDoc Verify panel, the document type is displayed at the top left corner of the panel. In the prior, 8.x version of Datacap, the page type was displayed rather than the document type. ...
3 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Control exposure for REST Automation Service from admin console

there is no way to remove exposure for a REST Automation service similar to Web Service Killian.Byrne (IBM) Jan 30, 2024, 15:08 Hi Amr, Thanks for joining me on the call today. I created a service flow yesterday and created an exposed automation r...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Increase the Integer Variable limit in BAWoC

Hi Team, Integer is one of the most important field where we use it to input Tax amount and our users are frequently using higher limit compared to allowed limit(2147483647 and -2147483647). It would be a great idea to increase this limit by double
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration