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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

Field Validation required enhancement on Plain-Text contro

Plain text display error even after correcting the value with valid data. Scenario: If a text field already has a pre-populated value. The user clicks on the text field and enters an invalid input that does not match the defined regular expression...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Is a defect

Improve tenant integration

We would like to work with a 3-tier system as follows: 1. tenant = bank 2. Organisation = business domain 3. process = type of process by naming convention The handling of tenants could be improved to level such as organisations
about 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Future consideration

Remove inconsistency for activity work time resolution

When managing "activity working time", the smallest number you can store is 1 minute. When defining "working time" in BPA it offers to work in seconds. In order for both to work together appropriately, "activity working time" should also allow for...
about 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Planned for future release

Restore the Pan view feature in the new ruleflow editor

When looking at large / complex ruleflows in the new editor (in Rule Designer 9.0), using horizontal & vertical scrollbars is tedious. It was much easier to do so in the previous legacy editor, with the 'Pan' mode. Ideally, there could be a wa...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

CPE: Continuous content consistency check sweep for validation of ingested content

Some customers may want to continuously validate their ingested content, at some time after it is fully stored. The current Content Consistency Sweep job is a one and done function that you have to re-create every time that you want to run a consi...
about 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Table rows mapping into CPE String property template.

it will benefit lot of customers who want to parse the table rows into BAW/FileNet CPE document meta data (property). currently no such table rows mapping into CPE object store.
over 1 year ago in Automation Document Processing 0 Under review

LDAP Sync - ARS1221I Group Member Addition

Preview will not output the group member addition in certain scenarios, but the actual sync will assign group membership correctly. One example shown below. The group CMOD_Users does not exist in CMOD and user001 and user002 are members of CMOD_Us...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Sticky Note pop up disappearing when moving from one page to another page in Daeja Viewer

If a document is having 5 pages and user has created a sticky note on page number 1 and user is editing the sticky note and if user wants any info to be copied from page number 5 , then the pop up is disappearing if user moves from one page to ano...
about 3 years ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Future consideration

Allow search for part of words instead of whole word

Search does now work for Japanese : need to be able to search with parts of a word
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Business Performance Center should support unmapped elastic search.

While CP4BA 21.0.3 had enhancements on how the Event Pipeline configuration changes are pushed, the ability to configure event transformation, the ability to define additional indexes and the ability to decide what gets pushed and where was alread...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Future consideration