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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

Be able to move property values up and down in the list on the Details window

Would like to be able to move values within a property on the Details edit window up and down to specify an order. Today the only way to specify and order to the values is to enter them in a specific order. Therefore, if a value needs to be insert...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Attachments size limit

My idea is to introduce an option to set an attachment size limit, so the account Admin can specify how many kB can have an attachment. It could be a part of account Customization in the Admin area.
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 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

Compatibility of CMOD with Scality S3

Santander Bank has scality s3 as object storage standard as well as CMOD for content management. It is desirable to have official compatibility to integrate them and having support in long term
almost 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration

Enhance ARSYSPIN STORLIMIT to accept truncated segment of sysout into the current collection

Currently, the ARSYSPIN STORLIMIT keyword allows three actions: abend, hold, and retry. We set a size limit in MB or GB, and when the collection has an incoming selection of sysout/spool file that is larger than the limit, it can only do three thi...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Future consideration

Request for official list to provide detailed information on container images versions, file sizes, digest names in the latest or future versions of CP4BA, FNCM Standalone containers or on-prem CPE and client applications

Government agencies require itemized list of software applications for purchase approval purposes. The system is called TRM. Technical Reference Model (TRM) is a set of categorized software and non-commodity hardware products that is the starting ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Use local time-zone in email-search-fliter command

We have to manually calculate the timezone difference before input into the email search filter. Is it possible to give choose-timezone options or use-local-time zone option for this command? It is really inconvented to calculate timezone differen...
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Include coordinates in BPMN export

We would like to integrate Blueworks Live with other Enterprise design tools that support BPMN.We can of course use deep link but there are also situations where we want to import the diagram as BPMN 2.0 and then design other activities on top of ...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

ICN - consistent way of sending mails with content or link and ability to set basic mail-properties

At the moment there are several different implementations of sending an email from ICN. Which way is used depends on incomprehensible criterias: HTML based sending on the server via an smtp-connection with or without document attachment. Disadvant...
over 4 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Activation of ICC4SAP-Plugin for ICN only in desktops where really needed

Current situation is: If we want to use the ICC4SAP-Plugin in a specific administrative ICN desktop there is a need of enabling the ICC4SAP-plugin in another desktop (the one that is defined as default desktop) in order make the plugin work correc...
over 4 years ago in Content Collector for SAP 0 Future consideration