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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

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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

Request a configurable option to disable drag-and-drop in ICN.

Request to add a configurable option to disable the drag-and-drop feature in ICN. This is intended to prevent business users from unintentionally moving folders.
2 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Enhance the logging output for GraphQL client to include the response as well as the request in the logs.

Enhancing the logging of the GraphQL client to include the response will help trouble shoot issues related to requests. At this time a request can fail but there is no response output to determine why it failed. Development teams working with the ...
2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

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

Order Process instances by execution time, not name

When you're working with an orchestration process, you usually want to analyze the instances by date/time of execution, not necessarily by its name. Due to that, we can change the instance list to be ordered by date/time by default, not by name.
11 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under 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

Allow scheduling of Rule runner threads

There may be times when you want certain tasks to only run during certain times - maybe off hours. It would be nice to either be able to configure threads to be enabled/disabled for set times instead of manually having to enable and disable. An ex...
7 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Add further roles for Role-based redaction in Filenet/ICN

Currently the only options for Role-based redaction are Editor (create and delete) or Viewer. The customer wants to be able to add roles that have the permissions below:Editor Group A: Members are only allowed to create new redactions; but reveali...
about 1 month ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

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

IBM dcDesktop client allow page(s) within a document mark for delete showing a red x next to the page. Customer would like the same feature apply at the document level when fixing up the document. Same customer as in IDEAAPP-I-112 requesting similar interface enhancment.

When batch is in fix-up using dcDestkop the batch tree will show the batch structure. Customer would like to be able to mark the document for delete instead of one page at a time within the document. Currently if you mark the page for delete a red...
about 1 month ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Under review