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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...

All ideas

Ability to print HTML files using Daeja Print service

Customer was using the print applet to print files but now switched to Daeja HTML service to print files. They have a lot of html files which they were able to print with the print applet and no longer able to do so with the Daeja HTML print servi...
almost 3 years ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 1 Future consideration

DATACAP NAVIGATOR Add "OR" in the user filter

It would be very useful to be able to choose many clauses with an OR operator.Today we can only use an AND operator.
almost 3 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

DATACAP Navigator applying a Filter on Jobmonitor column directly

We would like, as in many applications, to filter on column directly on the task monitor
almost 3 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Saved filter should not be case senstive.

Without SSO, users must type their login in the exact same case, otherwise the saved filter won't appear.
almost 3 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Native Mac Ondemand Client and Server Apps

A microsoft windows environment is currently required for our team to Admin or Develop our application which uses CMOD Java API. Some of our team members use Mac which forces them to develop or run the admin client in a virtualized windows environ...
almost 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Future consideration

Decrypting AT-TLS data stream from z/OS, so it can be loaded into OnDemand.

Decrypting AT-TLS data stream from z/OS, so it can be loaded into OnDemand.
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Not under consideration

CPE\CSS unable to index MS Word documents that have sensitivity labeling of "Highy confidential". Also, Daeja Viewer cannot open them.

CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: Customer has added several MS word .docx files to their FileNet CPE repository that have a sensitivity labeling of "Highly confidential". That means that only members of the customer's organization can open these files. See ...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Request tool for the IBM BAW instances and tasks migration to CP4BA BAW environment

Hi, Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC has successfully acquired the IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) platform as part of our continued efforts to modernize and streamline business process automation capabilities. We are currently undertak...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

Implement a feature for identifying which tasks are involved in OptimisticLockExceptions

Improve the product’s behavior so that, in case of an OptimisticLockException, it provides clear evidence of which tasks were involved in the conflict. This would help in understanding, at the design level, how to better organize the steps — for e...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Not under consideration

There is no auto-mapping for tracking fields

When you map tracking groups in the Tracking tab of an activity, you have to map individual fields one-by-one. There is no auto-map functionality available.
about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration