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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 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

list of literal Integers

In BAL, we would like to be able to provide a list of literal Integers in the actionpart. At the moment, a literal number in a list is automatically transformed to a Double in the actionpart of the rule, which seems strange when there are no decim...
almost 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Show the status of a sweep in the list view of ACCE. Show if it is enabled and if it is completed or still running. The completion status would not apply to Sweep Policies

Admins would benefit from this because they could see sweep job status at a glance without need to query the database directly.
almost 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

Include Processes Linked by Message Event When Generating Documentation

Generating documentation (PDFs, Word, etc.) provides option to "Include linked processes (## processes)", but does not include processes linked by Message Events (Intermediate, Start nor Stop). When processes are related to parent - whether direct...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Request for Enhanced User Login Security in IBM Datacap Navigator

The requested feature aims to enhance user login security for our IBM Datacap Navigator and IBM Navigator applications. Specifically, it would: Enable a single-user login restriction: Once a user successfully logs in, any subsequent attempts to lo...
almost 3 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Hierarchical dropdowns for custom fields

We are requesting the implementation of hierarchical drop downs, such that a selection of a 1st level dropdown spawns a 2nd level dropdown based upon the 1st level selection, and then the selection of the 2nd level dropdown spawns a 3rd level drop...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

We would like to see CMOD function with passwordless IDs, esp. for ARS* tasks or remote connections.

Currently all ARS* started tasks and any remote connections that we have to CMOD use an ID and password wherein the passwords are stored in the stash file during the instance creation. Recently there were some issues occurred wherein the IDs got r...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Functionality already exists

Ability to send message from throw (send) message event to multiple catch (receive) message events in one or more processes

In order for multiple spawned processes to be "linked" via send/receive message events, send event should be able to send message to multiple receive message events in one or more processes. Basically provide ability for "Multiple" event type.
over 10 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced executeScript

executeScript could have a sibling method called assignScript where a script could be assigned to a variable of type 'script', along with any script initial variable assignments. The script could then be called by calling the variable as a paramet...
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Reserve capacity for specefic projects

Implementing capacity reservation for specific projects in RPA would offer improved resource allocation, improved scalability. This could also help organization optimize their RPA deplyments.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Specify the display type when in a Space View

Allow ability to change view of Spaces to be list view, detail view, etc. The view when in a Space today is like a Grid view. In some cases, it would be easier to see things in list view than grid view, especially on different screen sizes. There ...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration