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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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

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Create option to connect to MongoDB through SSL for Self-Signed Certificates

The option to connect to an external MongoDB for Process Mining is vital for a larger workload, but to be the most secure, providing the option to connect through SSL while using a self-signed certificate should be available.
about 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1

Paging or data in CSHS Table UI View

Ability to configure for Client and Server-Side paging where the server-side paging calls a configurable service. In our current project implementation, the team has implemented a component called Paging Section that nests the existing Table in th...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

New languages support in IBM Navigator

IBM Navigator already supports a lot of languages (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/content-navigator/2.0.3?topic=navigator-language-support-content), but there is a need from clients in CEE to have their local languages supported as well. They are loo...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Export Search Results

I would like to be able to export the search result options from a process and a space search. Right now the search results are not exportable. I have to manually access each record to get what I need. I'd like to be able to key in a search term t...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

IBM CN for Microsoft Office task tab

IBM CN for Microsoft Office. The tasks tab will only show the sample FileNet review steps. We created our own Workflows, but those steps are not visible
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Maintain version compatibility on RES

Compared with the classic rule engine, the decision engine has a smaller compatibility range of rule applications. In the jump-up migration, rebuild and distribution will be necessary.When upgrading, functions that do not require rebuild and distr...
over 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Future consideration

Prevent users to access BPM Process Admin

We would like to prevent non-admin users from accessing Process Admin Console. Can you add this functionality/enhancements in BAW future versions?
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

New roles for Decision Center which has Read-Only Access

The customer has requested a new role to be created which has Read-Only access to the Decision Center. It would be like resMonitor role for RES console.The basic user role rtsAdmin has basic priviliges in DC which enable it to edit the rules and p...
about 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

The new Standard REST API should have the same functions as the heritage REST API

The new standard REST API only has a few methods available, compared to many in the heritage REST API - this is a drawback when deciding which variant to use - the heritage model clearly is the preferred one for complex integrations, but it is lac...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Add 'Item Type' data when exporting to Excel

When exporting data to Excel parameter 'Item Type' is missing at sheets 'Documentation' and 'Text Annotations'. Because the data 'Item Name' already exists in those sheets it would be very helpful for further analysis to add also the missing param...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration