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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).


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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
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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Enhance driver/file dependent commands to include a visible note for the user

Today, users are warned by the product itself that some commands require drivers or file dependencies. For example, for using the Connect To MySQL command, the users needs to download the driver and add the driver to the IBM RPA directory. We sugg...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Enable CaseSynchronizer to run in "report" mode

Enable CaseSynchronizer to run in "report" mode ===================================== Client reported a concern that, in large installations, they need to anticipate the impact of running CaseSynchronizer tool. client expects granularity of the to...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

2 different "Add Case" form for different working groups

For the business needs our customer wants to use 2 different views for the "Add Case" page. So if groups "Managers" insert a new case they have to insert some certain fields. But if groups "Accounts" insert the same type of case thay must insert o...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Conversion utility needs to support additional types

BPM 8.6 provides a utility to convert deprecated items to newer types (for example, converting General System Services to Service Flows). However, the current utility does not support all item types, especially older ones. For example items of typ...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Password Auto rotation

Feature being requested Password for DB Account and LDAP Account to be auto sync with vault (like hashicorp vault) Why is it required Due to increased cyber attacks passwords should be auto rotated either on defined period or whenever there is som...
over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

Requesting that Session Timeout Send Users to Login Page

Currently the session timeout in the Decision Center and Decision Server UIs only sends the user to the login page on the first request they make after their session expires. We're requesting that the UIs automatically move the users to the login ...
almost 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Functionality already exists

Monitoring of Event Manager outside ProcessAdmin console

Need a way to monitor the status of event manager outside the ProcessAdmin console.
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Blueworks live user invite email

We updated our system to use ADP SSO ( single singon (instead of the standard username/password from the URL). When we grant access to users it generates default email to them and then we have to tell them to use SSO URL. Sometimes users forget ou...
about 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Translation & multi language support

We are a FTSE 100 Company with sites across all of Europe. We operate in up to 10 languages and need to be able to view our standard process maps in most of these languages without creating multiple uncontrolled translated copies!
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Datacap: ex_scan action in Ewsmail needs to be able to scan from subfolders

The ex_scan action in Ewsmail in Datacap needs to be able to scan for e-mails in subfolders of the Inbox in addition to inbox. i.e. ex_scan_folder("orders")ex_scan checks the subfolder orders of the Inbox of the previously established connection
about 5 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration