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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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Different windows display resolution/scaling to be used apart from 100% in surface automation

Customer can change resolution depending on their environmentPractical difficulty in maintaining the same resolution on all user profiles https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6982559 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rpa/23.0?topic=trsr-rpa-studio-rec...
8 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Option to load in memory on start objects blocked by com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.disallowAllFileServing=true OR fileServingEnabled=false

WebSphere Application Server Control Procedures within our company require that file serving be disabled when at all possible. We have found EASPI and other files are loaded this way when ICN loads page side, i.e. during login. If there could be a...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

For Sox Compliance also add IP address /device info when updating the rules

Many clients are taking SOX chapter 5 ( IT controls ) as a general guidelines for SOX. Chapter 5 best pratice is to keep not only who did the change but also the device info ( IP, device type ) of who changed the content ( in the case of ODM who c...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Native connector with watsonx.ai

Create new connector with watsonx.ai that allow to consume foundational models deployed in this tool. This will bring flexibility to clients.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Some improvements and questions for canvas in BAMOE 9.0.0

We're doing some tests with canvas product for BAMOE 9.0.0 (https://quay.io/repository/bamoe/canvas) and we have two important questions and concerns: 1. Can we connect with bitbucket vía ssh? As far as I read the communication with bitbucket is b...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Not under consideration

Cache an Object in Business rules Decison Operation execution

Hi Team, I have an idea of caching huge request object (if the object is going to be same for all the request processed for 1-2 days or one week or defined time). This will help for batch processing. We have a requirement that needs to conclude so...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Streamline, simplify and improve the process of installing debug builds

When we need to install a debug build, we first need to uninstall the current version, install the debug build, and then change the log levels to the desired state. Once the debug process is done, we need to get back to the old version, but more o...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Allow post logout redirect in CP4BA 21.0.3 as it was the case with UMS and CP4BA 20.0.3

With CP4BA 21.0.3 and CS 3.21, it is no longer possible to perform a logout on the external IDP side as it was the case with UMS and CP4BA 20.0.3 via a post-logout redirect . A solution has been proposed to us (see file TS010116671) but requires t...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Not under consideration

Enhance user roles of Decision Center so that separate different business departments with settings

Please add department user management roles of Decision Center which only can give authorization for users within only own department.The rules of each department is confidential information for them and they would not like to show it to users of ...
almost 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

IBM Content Collector to have a generic emaill connector implementation to connect using SMTP host, port and credentials, with optional folder name.

Why it is useful?Many customers use IBM Content Collector to ingest documents into IBM FileNet Content manager, and one of the main use case is to archive emails from the mail inbox and store it for future reference. Currently, the IBM Content Col...
8 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Not under consideration