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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...

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Improvement CSP Case Notification

Adding screenshots/pictures in comment field for customer replies: As a large IBM customer we need better CSP case notifications that already contain important information in the subject. Attached an example. This shows that it does not contain im...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Code management in Process Center

Code management in Process Center is very limited; standard code repositories enable you to do branching and merging. Tracks offer a very limited branch capability, but there is no way to merge tracks other than manually moving items (which is a v...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enable JavaScript editor for JS web or server files

There should be an editor for uploaded JavaScript files so when the JS file needs to change, we could open the wanted artifact and just change the code. It could be a new type of artifact, or you can leave JS file as Web or Server File as it is no...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Wrap Text for Metadata

For Text Metadata fields, having the boxes wrap text would allow for a smoother user experience.
6 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Scan to PDF in Datacap Navigator

We would like the ability to scan directly to an ICN entry template as a PDF. The Datacap Navigator transactional capture allows scanning directly to an entry template but only as a jpeg or tif image. We have customers that don't necessarily need ...
over 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Include Gantt Chart and Diagram feature in BAW or a similar view for workflows

There is a limitation of using federated Process Portal with BAW product, the Gantt Chart feature is not available in the container version. Although in several cases, a complete diagram workflow shows the user more information or details of the w...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Sorting Document classes in Datacap Desktop Batch view

List of document classes in Datacap Desktop Batch view are not sorted in alphabetical order. There is no configuration or settings available to do this in existing Datacap Desktop environment.
8 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

OpenAPI support for allOf, oneOf, anyOf

Allianz is looking to support allOf, oneOf, anyOf. TS015216832 is open to address this limitation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/23.x?topic=service-openapi-support.
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Persist data between documents in a batch in Datacap Navigator

We have customized the index screen so when the indexer selects the 'Persist Date' checkbox, the indexing screen remembers the received date and populates the field for each document in the batch. When the indexer selects the 'Persist Doc Type' ch...
over 1 year ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Group & Individual Tasks Email Notification

Hi Team, All Users in the group getting email when a Group Task is created, is causing a lot of emails that Cornerstone users do not need to receive. This seem like a product feature, but there is an ask to see whether we can limit the emails only...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration