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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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request to support credential override through projects like we had for schedulers

This would be helpful for Customer to simplify daily work
3 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

The feature of initiating a BPD from a UCA should be available on the same TIP snapshot

Customer felt initiating a BPD from a UCA on the same TIP seems to require a disproportionate amount of extra work. The functionality demands considerable extra effort to execute a basic operation. While this functionality exists for snapshots, it...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

IBM RPA ability to cancel bot in status Waiting

Currently, there are some situations in which the cancellation of a expected bot run can be useful. A cancel button and reset for the waiting schedules can improve the user experience and provide the user with even more control of the schedules.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

GraphQL query choicelist values

GraphQL (unlike REST) allows you obtain several information about object in one request. But it doesn't allow to obtain display value of choicelist property (when query for folders/documents or other records) Moreover it doesn't allow to obtain ch...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Publish/ Unpublish Status overview of maps

Status of the blueprints within a workspace. Example : Total Blueprints - 10, Published - 7, Unpublished - 3. Provide list of maps which are published and unpublished in the BWL.
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Content Navigator Configuration & Deployment tool support on Shared Network Drive

Customer has an architectural requirement to install and deploy Content Navigator on Shared Network Drive which is not a supported method until now.
5 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Improve edit service configurable temp path

What we can do is to improve for this: Since we can't avoid popping up the 'Save As' window, we can only try to optimize manual settings/steps in option 2 to make the Temp file path configurable for the end user. The current temp folder(C:\Users\#...
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

use of MIME type application/pdf in OpenAPI Rest service invocation

Business case use the need of implementation of PDF in rest api services as evolving technology
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

use of PATCH or TRACE in REST service OpenAPI

Use of the Patch Operation offered by the Rest OpenAPI is required by the Business Case.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow CSV mapping through API

We are currently trying to build an automated option for creating projects. For now, the only part we can't automate is the CSV mapping (we've already explored the option of using an IDP file, but we can only create an IDP after creating a project...
6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists