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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:

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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Add command to switch iframes for web automations with IBM RPA

Many webpages and especially ones which are being used to download various reports based on filters etc, but in general more robust pages, now usually include more then 1,2 iframes. It would be 100% flexibility and efficiency improvement if there ...
11 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

Option to keep the TextSelection button always enabled for selection

Option to keep the TextSelection button always selected/enabled using a parameter. Currently the button is a toggle and the user has to click to enable the button for selection
29 days ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted

Allow the use of an Entra ID workload identity for Directory Server Accounts

The concept of non-human accounts doesn’t exist in Microsoft Entra ID typically applications where no human interaction is involved use OAuth client credential flow as explained here. The FileNet CPE makes use of some directory server accounts tha...
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Task mining - the ability to classify several tasks at once

Task mining - the ability to classify several tasks at once At the Task Classification stage, after filtering out specific applications, it should be possible to classify several tasks at the same time within specific applications. This solution g...
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

Netapp SnapLock Customers are not welcome in the containerized world

There are many customers in the fields which are using FileNet Content Manager since years successfully in combination with Netapp SnapLock volumes. They have created many volumes due to compliance reasons. They have grouped volumes for each year ...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 2 Future consideration

Support configurable transaction timeouts for REST API operations in IBM ODM to improve CI/CD pipeline reliability.

Currently, IBM ODM only honors transaction timeout settings for the Business Console, while REST API operations do not reflect these configurations. This limitation affects use cases where long-running operations—such as importing branches or crea...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Bai event format configuration to have the processAppAcronym in the messages in IBM Business Automation Workflow

We would like to have the processAppAcronym in the messages in the future. Either as a default value or configurable to configure the events to contain the "processAppAcronym" - a short unique identifier for a processApp. We need it to distribute ...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

ability to reference same document (base part) across multiple item types

instead of storing duplicate documents that may be needed across multiple item types the different item types can reference the same base part gives the ability to have different metadata on each item type that is linked to that base part
29 days ago in Content Manager (CM8) 0 Submitted

SRVC: List ICN desktop(s) that are associated with a given custom plugin on the plugins page

List ICN desktop(s) that are associated with a given custom plugin on the plugins page. When we should be able to see a list of all the desktops that use a plugin when we go to details of each plugin
about 2 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Needs more information

Accessing ruleApp / ruleset property values from within java XOM

When defining a RuleApp deployment for a Decision Service in either Decision Center or Rule Designer, we can define 'RuleApp Properties' key-value pairs. However, there does not appear to be a way to use the documented public API to access the pro...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 4