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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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Implement a tool for moving case data across existing environments

5 years back we had one Traditional VM based BAW cluster. It was having a few separate BPM and Case applications running on it. System load was quite high, for example CPU and memory resources were running out and making the system unstable and un...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ablity to Store Bots in folders in Control Center

Currently, all bots that get published are stored in a root folder. In a large organization, this can be come hard to manage. If the product would allow folders to be used that would be extremely helpful.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Credentials in IBM RPA update with expiration date, invalid highlight etc

IBM RPA has no options related to Credentials. Only to insert and update. There is no possibility to select Expiration date, invalid status etc and by this credentials can be very easy to revoke when more users are using same tenant. As inspiratio...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Make Simple Search Available for CM8 Customers

Our users search across multiple item types in CM8 (IBM Content Manager) to find their documents. For example, a user wants to review all documents related to policy number 123. Newer item types have a larger, resized policy number field which mea...
29 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

Datacap Navigator Quick filter search need improvement in terms of search criteria

In Datacap Navigator, it would be better to have some way to quickly filter out the batches based on ID or BAR code, etc. in certain period of time or in certain number of batches (or possibly all). This quick search filter in Datacap Navigator ne...
29 days ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

Allow Users to Add a Custom PVC to the Workflow Process Service (WfPS) Component

Customer has a custom application that requires an absolute path to be specified. This is possible by mounting a custom pvc with the required mountPath. The requirement is to allow customers to add a PVC to the Workflow Process Service component. ...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

Enable User to Assign a Name when using the reassignTo JS API to prevent the usage of "Temporary Group" as the display name.

Tasks created via a Team Filter Service are provided custom names for ex: "The Analyst Team", or "Level 1 Processors". However, after a reassign is done via the JS API TWTask.reassignTo. BPM Just always creates an adhoc group with DISPLAY_NAME as ...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

UI_Preferred_Logon prohibits to add users or groups to the ZEN administration

Our endusers would like to be brought directly to navigator after having selected the URL in their brwosers. We are using OICD and this works great. Because we want to supress the dialog where you could select the authentication methods we have co...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

Add String Manipulation Methods to Business Action Language

Currently there are no basic string manipulation methods in the Business Action Language in IBM Automation Decision Services (ADS). This leads to the need to implement basic string manipulation methods like toUppercase and toLowercase in external ...
over 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

More granulated control for e-mail notifications

Currently, it is only possible to enable or disable in the Workplace profile the option to receive e-mail notifications when a task is assigned. When a user start a process and the first task is assigned to the user or a launch UI is associated wi...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration