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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...

All ideas

Request to add Horizonatal configuration to radio button control

for the radio button control there's need to be a configuration option for displaying the buttons in horizontal order.
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Organization hierarchy for Managers Team in BPM

For current Team Filter Service and Team Retrieve Service, we cannot filter team members for managers team. For example, I want the staff's line manager to be in managers team, the staff is defined at runtime, so the managers team member decided b...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to move the activity/events around in the Model view

User is requesting to enable the activities show in the model view to be easily movable for easy accessibility/maneuver of the process view. Currently the activities within the Model is not editable and it is causing difficulty in explaining the p...
about 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

Support Selection Simple type

Support Selection Simple type
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

BAW BPM - ECM Uploader component - Create unfiled document

Currently the component ECM Uploader only supports (works as design) for filed documents (folder or root folder), the idea is to expand the feature to allow in the configuration to create unfiled documents since it is supported by FileNet and CMIS...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support local group membership on IBM BAW Workflow Case administration

The new feature(P8 v5.5.7) allows defining a security group within the P8 domain instead of defining it in an LDAP directory service Feature Overiew https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/filenet-p8-platform/5.5.x?topic=v557-whats-new-administrators St...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add bulk task reassign to REST API

The BPM REST API currently allows the reassignment of a single task, but is lacking a bulk task reassign. Customers wanting to reassign multiple tasks via the REST API need to loop over the list and call the API for each singe task. The task API (...
almost 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Change configuration table to use 32K page size

Please refer to RTC Collaboration 137316. The customer is having issues with HADR failover and a limitation was found which could be a problem. The ATTRIBUTE column in ICNDB.CONFIGURATION has INLINE LENGTH 16K which means 16K is allowed and can be...
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Business Automation Workflow should support Multi-value property templates of type unique

We are facing issue with the multi value property allowing duplicate values for multi value property in case client screen. We would like to have a property to provide values with unique and ordered as list in case client screen. PFA of case clien...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Filter users on name or email address when removing them from user groups

When removing users from a user group, they are presented alphabetically by 'public' user name. To find a specific user can be very challenging as:- there is no filter capability- there are three lists, alpha sorted by license type.- users can (an...
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration