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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).


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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:

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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,

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  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

Ability for Data Tables and Lists to be referred to in parameterization within Scripts

When working with Datatables you're often locked in to many nested commands. A strong value add would be if we could refer to elements in parameterization. IE Dog Woof Cat Meow Horse Neigh ${vDataTable.cell(1,2)} would equal Cat. This would save c...
over 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Datacap Navigator - Batch list with datacap security applied

In Datacap Navigator, when a data controller user accesses the job monitor, it sees all the batches of one Datacap application (including the batches belonging to the other offices). The user should see only batches which he has access, as configu...
almost 3 years ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Kerberos support for XA Recovery transactions on BPM/WAS

Requesting Kerberos authentication support for transactions during XA recovery. Product version: IBM BPM 8.5.6.0/WAS 8.5.5.12 Kerberos functionality provided by IBM on WAS/BPM is not fully working and needs enhancement.
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Request the ability to print from the Local Rendering Viewer

Due to memory limitation of the Browser when scanning large documents, client is now using the Local Viewer which helps to resole solve the high memory consumption during scan. IBM Datacap Development confirmed that the Local Viewer does not have ...
almost 3 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Exporting Marker values

In process modelling, activities can be marked with a Marker (Normal, MultiLoop, SimpleLoop). These values are not exported in Excel, when function Export Space is used. This means that not all process details can be analysed in excel. I suggest t...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

Streaming of WAV files in Content Navigator

We need the ability to stream WAV audio files in Content Navigator. These files are stored in FileNet and can be downloaded through Content Navigator. However other audio formats can be streamed through the viewer. Having WAV files also available ...
almost 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Function to merge multiple graphs into a single graph

Measurements/SERVICETIME based on multiple criteria are calculated from the same activity.In this case, a graph can be generated for each SERVICETIME / measurement (start time and end time).We would like the function to integrate multiple generate...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Enhance Rule project compatibilities with dependent Maven nature XOM projects

When creating a XOM project derived from Maven, then a Rule project using that XOM in Rule Designer, the xom-libraries xom does not contain XOM project resources. It is actually a problem as resources might be needed at runtime when executing the ...
almost 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Add ability to access the 'description' attribute from TWRole objects via the JSAPI

When creating BAW roles, we like to use naming conventions like [ProcessAppAcronym]_[ApplicationRole]_[RegionIdentifier] which could give us the following for example: VET_StandardsReview_Region1, VET_StandardsReview_Region2, VET_Manager_Region1, ...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

A configurable option or built-in behavior to automatically close document viewer tabs when their associated case is closed.

This feature is useful because it would streamline the user interface and reduce confusion for users who work with multiple documents within cases. Users who frequently open documents from a case management system would benefit, as it would create...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration