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:

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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
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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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All ideas

    Provide a Open API (aka Swagger File) for ALL BlueWorks Live REST APIs, including get OAuth token

    Currently tools such as IBM Business Automation Workflow cannot directly call BWL APIs as there are no accurate and comprehensive Swagger files. This makes it very difficult to build a automated QA process for BWL blueprints.
    over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

    KPI information should auto-populate as a sum to higher levels such as from (L4 to L3, L2 and L1) where the L4 process map is linked to.

    We need a functionality where if the KPI's are filled for the activities(such as Cycle Time) under a sub-process should be calculated as a total of all the activities and auto-populate as the KPI information for the sub-process including all the a...
    over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

    Manage complex type EPVs in ProcessAdmin

    If you want to change EPV-Value in Process Admin, this is no problem for simple type EPVs. But if you want to change the value on a complex type EPV an exception is thrown:Exception in SystemOut.log: ControllerSer E CWLLG0004E: A Throwable was cau...
    about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Improve Get Text/Scraping Capabilities

    We need to improve IBM RPA's scraping capabilities since there are many controls where it simply fails to extract the text, specially on Windows applications. It could be a command like the Get Visible Text from UiPath, which usually is able to ex...
    over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Increase Spring Boot version support in v8

    Hi, Nowadays the last version of Spring Boot that can be used with Bamoe 8.X is Spring Boot 2.5.X A version of Spring Boot without any support. https://endoflife.date/spring-boot I think it will be great to use last releases of Spring Boot (3.X an...
    over 2 years ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 4 Not under consideration

    Datacap Navigator - Batch list with datacap security applied

    In Datacap Navigator, when a data controller user accesses the job monitor, it sees all the batches of one Datacap application (including the batches belonging to the other offices). The user should see only batches which he has access, as configu...
    over 2 years ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

    Allow to use config map/secret to mount files to ODM pod

    The client have some common 3rd party library jar files shared by different rulesets, instead of putting them in XOM lib for each ruleset, they want these classes to be loaded only once. So they are fine to use downloadURL for these files. But the...
    about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

    Bulk export capabilities for workflow details in Blueworks Live

    As of now, it is possible to access the history of all workflow tasks on a process, attachments, etc., but only by opening them one by one in Blueworks Live. For compliance reasons, it is often required provide such details on a large number of w...
    over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under consideration

    Upgrade to MS SQL 2022 Compatibility Level to 2016 while on IBM P8 BAW 21.0.3.x before upgrading to BAW 24.0.x

    Customers need to update their MS SQL Server environment to 2022 ASAP and request that they run it in SQL Server Compatibility Level 2016, which the customer is presently on (SQL Server 2016 SP2) before they upgrade to BAW 24.0.x on new hardware.
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

    Enable Configuration of "Allows Null Values" Parameter for Database Index Creation in ACCE

    We would like to request an enhancement to the FileNet Content Platform Engine (CPE) ACCE to address a limitation in the current functionality regarding database index creation. Problem Statement: When creating database indexes via ACCE, the "Allo...
    about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

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