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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

Auto flow doesn't work from parent task to sub process task

The autoflow from process task to sub-process task doesn't work between two different teams having common users. Whereas the auto flow from one process task to next process task between two different teams works.Our process design involves multipl...
over 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Enable the Process Instance Migration tool to support Mutual TLS on BAMOE 8.x

Customer has security restricitons that prevent them to store user and password credentials in plain text.
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

This is a continuation of a request to combine multiple content elements into a single PDF for view. The requested addition is to display the single PDF in the Daeja Viewer rather than the PDF viewer

The customer's dental team receives documents with different mimetypes that are combined into a single FileNet document with multiple content elements. An enhancement is in progress that uses the PDF viewer to combine all the content elements into...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Support FNCM S deployments on OCP without cluster role/privilege

The request is to officially support deploying FNCM Standalone, on OpenShift, but using the 'k8s' platform in the CR (without OLM obviously).The goal is to make it possible to deploy FileNet and the operator in a single namespace, with nothing mor...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Invalidate the CSHS URL in Process Center based on exposure and archived flags

Currently, the CSHS URLs have the following pattern: PROTOCOL://HOST:PORT/teamworks/executecf?modelID=1.&branchID=2063..You can look up the PROCESS_ID and BRANCH_ID in LSW_PROCESS and LSW_BRANCH table to create the URL and access the CSHS. Thi...
over 8 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...
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Recognize automatically selectors

Instead of creating by yourself the selector or use the web inspector to create it, allow Click activities and Type activities (in browser and Desktop) to select the button or field to click or type and identificate automatically the selector.
almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

HTTP POST calls should be logged

When using the HTTP POST command, it would be useful for the log file to show the raw HTTP request (such as in curl format) so that issues can be easily debugged.
almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Support search within PDF annotations content

Right now, users can search for PDFs via IBM Content Navigator using Content Search Services. The results include those documents that have the specific wording searched within PDF native annotations (PDF forms, for example). But, once the user op...
over 2 years ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Future consideration

Cluster should show Failed whenever deployment failed.

CP4BA deployment should show Failed whenever deployment failed.
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration