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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:

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

All ideas

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Moving ICM case type and its cases from one solution to another

Hi, It'd be useful to have a feature wherein case type along with the cases belonging to this case type can be moved from one solution to another. It happens due to changing business needs that case types created in one solution need to be moved t...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Customer should be able to specify their SaaS tenant name

Customers should be able to chose their SaaS tenant name. A customer got ONS and ONS-ENV1 for their PROD/ DEV environments which is not intuitive. They are thinking of buying a third environment for Pre-prod. They don't want ONS-ENV2. Please can t...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Oracle DB Support AL16UTF16 character set for BPM NCHAR character set

support NCHAR character set AL16UTF16 on Oracle Databases. per Oracle doc https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/NLSPG/ch6unicode.htm#NLSPG317 AL16UTF16 This is the default character set and recommended for SQL NCHAR data types. This character set e...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Remove 1000 searchable variables limit when using using the saved search acceleration tools

Refer https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=portal-tuning-process-searches The session "Optimize saved searches with business data variables", it mentioned "When using a pivot table, you must ensure that you do not use more than 1000 searchab...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Should be add the advanced level on IBM academy in portuguese to become more accessible for people that are not capable of learning new subjects in another language.

More people would be able to learn how to use the IBM RPA
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Script Adapter can save as file and import/reuse able.

Issue:Script Adapters cannot be reused, as a result, we need to copy and paste every time Idea: Script Adapter can save as file and import/reuse able.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The change of Script Adapter can submit to the target object and be effected on the page after click a button

The change of Script Adapter can submit to the target object and be effected on the page after click a button User case: User change the java script in the script Adapter, then save solution User click the transform the java script
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Activity details enhancement

We want to be able to view and print a process diagram showing activities with some of the related information visible on the diagram. The current Blueworks mechanism for doing this is unusable for more than one piece of information.
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 5 Not under consideration

DE: Add the functions (.fct) in debug ruleset.arl file

all the function code (.fct files) should be added to ruleset.arl file which is important for debugging
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Support Kerberos authentication for component manager nor DBExecute accounts in Content Engine

Kerberos is a standard mechanism for authentication for many users of FileNet Content Engine
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration