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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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Blueworks Export To Excel

There are two things. We're leveraging value add and cycle time to calculate efficiency savings in both time and cost but have to combine data from multiple tabs We'd like to be able to sort space exports by things like date edited but have to use...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Implement RMVRPTOND at the iSeries over to a remote server

Hello, Would like to see the RMVRPTOND command at the iSeries over to a remote server (MP) implemented as it is the case on iSeries. Thanks, Olivier Baltus
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 5

Content Navigator Logs Login

Currently Content Navigator only shows logins for the system out when logging is set to Information level which also captures all performance logging which is unnecessary for our need and causes disk space constraints with large log file sizes. Th...
over 4 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

IBM Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) - Compatibility with OnPrem Cloudian HyperStore

I understand that IBM Content Manager OnDemand on Z is fully compatible with Amazon S3 in the cloud, however I would like to understand if IBM Content Manager OnDemand is fully compatible with the On-Perm S3 Compatible storage from Cloudian. https...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Future consideration

ICN Datacap Plugin for Fingerprint Maintenance

I think the Datacap industry needs a way for Datacap Operators to perform all of the activities in the DStudio Zones tab but using ICN. If we had a plugin that allowed an operator to tweak zones and see FP stats that would be awesome.
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 1 Not under consideration

WebPD Ability to extend code completion with custom JS web files

Improve productivity
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

We want incremental purging and archival of process instances and associated data including documents into a separate environment for future reference.

We want to have incremental (online) backup of our processes which are purged and then stored into a separate archival environment (same database table structure as primary BAW environment). We are already aware of scripts that can be scheduled to...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Build technical capability to leverage similar features bundled with IBM BAW standalone containers with IBM FileNet Content Manager standalone containers OR any other CNCF based offerrings to optimize the various resources like shared ICN, UMS, FileNet CPE, CMIS with BAW

We already have standalone CNCF based FileNet Content Manager containerized deployment in our environment. There was a request to build additional capability around CASE with standalone CNCF based BAW by leveraging similar capabilities like FileNe...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

OpenAPI compatibility: Ignore additional properties in REST responses

In OpenAPI, when additionalProperties is not specified for an object, the default behaviour is that any number of additional properties of any type are allowed.In typical implementations (for example Swagger Tools), the actual implementation simpl...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Multiple Select Option for Human in the Loop Commands

As an RPA user interested in human in the loop tasks (message boxes, input pop ups), I would like the ability to have combo boxes or multiple select options
almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration