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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 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...
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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Improve edit service configurable temp path

What we can do is to improve for this: Since we can't avoid popping up the 'Save As' window, we can only try to optimize manual settings/steps in option 2 to make the Temp file path configurable for the end user. The current temp folder(C:\Users\#...
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

IBM dcDesktop client allow page(s) within a document mark for delete showing a red x next to the page. Customer would like the same feature apply at the document level when fixing up the document. Same customer as in IDEAAPP-I-112 requesting similar interface enhancment.

When batch is in fix-up using dcDestkop the batch tree will show the batch structure. Customer would like to be able to mark the document for delete instead of one page at a time within the document. Currently if you mark the page for delete a red...
about 1 month ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Under review

For Document Explorer: Allow a developer to filter which document classes, display name and properties appear when a user clicks add document. Much like using an Entry Template with FileNet and Content Navigator

Allows for better customization for case solutions and only presents the information necessary for the case type being worked.
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support for the ability to compare rule flows between versions in Business Console

Since Enterprise Console functionality was removed in ODM 8.11.0, it is no longer to compare rule flows that were previously available. My customer has been using this feature for some time now and would like us to add the ability to compare rule ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Improve the process for splitting documents

When I split a document, I would like for it to automatically update to “Main page” so I do not have to manually do it and click “submit” and exit any pop up errors for changes. Currently, we are stuck with the present manual process of changing t...
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Ability to adjust the number case variants table limits on widgets

Nowadays, the case variant tables from the widgets perspective have a limit of 100 rows being show. If the user has 100+ case variants, they won't be able to see the whole table and all the percentages there. This idea is to make the limit adjusta...
2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release

Git integration for Process App and Toolkit Exports

Having a fully git integration, to use merge and pull requests outside of Process/Workflow Center is essential for working on different Workflow Centers. In huge organizations and also working from different organizations, it is necessary to have ...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Make Simple Search Available for CM8 Customers

Our users search across multiple item types in CM8 (IBM Content Manager) to find their documents. For example, a user wants to review all documents related to policy number 123. Newer item types have a larger, resized policy number field which mea...
about 1 month ago in Content Navigator 0 Under review

Datacap Navigator Quick filter search need improvement in terms of search criteria

In Datacap Navigator, it would be better to have some way to quickly filter out the batches based on ID or BAR code, etc. in certain period of time or in certain number of batches (or possibly all). This quick search filter in Datacap Navigator ne...
about 1 month ago in Datacap 0 Under review

GraphQL query choicelist values

GraphQL (unlike REST) allows you obtain several information about object in one request. But it doesn't allow to obtain display value of choicelist property (when query for folders/documents or other records) Moreover it doesn't allow to obtain ch...
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration