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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,

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  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 a flag to Content Engine string properties to store them always in uppercase

It would be very helpful to have a flag when string property templates are created to mark them centrally as uppercase properties and convert them always into uppercase when a value is entered. There is a similar function in entrytemplates for ICN...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Decision Center逾時警告或非預期錯誤的提示訊息內容能否友善化,目前的訊息呈現對一些較無程式概念的使用者而言較難以理解。

譬如目前Decision Center在逾時會出現的Timeou警告訊息內容,其中伺服器已回傳逾時錯誤、xhrTimeout、300000毫秒等字眼對於一般無程式概念的Users而言過於艱深,因此希望IBM能夠評估改善這些提示訊息的內容。
over 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

BlueWorks Inbound Process Links

The 'start task' (circle) in a process map should show links to all processes that can invoke the process (i.e. the list of processes that are currently listed in the 'where used' feature) in the same way as 'linked processes'. The exports (partic...
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Not under consideration

ICM - Documents Filter does not work together with Sort

Affected componentIBM Case Manager Solution / Case Information widget DescriptionCase Information widget is essential part of IBM Case Manager, that allows user to see overview of case. One of main parts of this widget is a Documents section used ...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Functionality already exists

Check for an umlaut in definition fields for tracking groups

When you are adding an umlaut in definition fields for tracking groups the process designer will accept it. But when you are updating the tracking definitions, it will cause an SQL error because of illegal characters. So please implement a field v...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM RPA with AA to work with file modification triggers and network drive files

When using the file modification triggers and network drive mapped files, executions do not reflect the amount modifications done in the file (the Windows NTFS API returns 3 modifications). For example, one modification is done, and this modificat...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 0 Planned for future release

Add Height configuration to Multi Select view

The "Multi Select" view in "UI Toolkit" does not offer a configuration option to set the height, and the height setting on the Positioning section does not affect the height. Manual CSS must be used to set the height. Other similar views such as T...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Need provision to replace celladmin, bpmadmin with users from a different repository(LDAP)

Hello, Our business demands the removal of celladmin, bpmadmin and replace them with a LDAP based user in an existing IBM BAW19003 environment. Based on the response to the support ticket# TS004314420, this can only be done as an enhancement to th...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Add default OCR setting to Studio

when we use OCR-related commands,We have to select the engine and language each time. Since each user basically uses the same engine and language, this task seems very complicated. Therefore, it would be easier to use the tool if there had opti...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Add support for .heic formatted files to the Navigator viewer

We have users who are storing photos from their IOS devices in their native format which is: image/heic, image/heif Can the virtual viewer support that format? They do open in Windows Photo Viewer.
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration