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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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Default sort for case documents widget

When the user opens a case, the document widget defaults to sorting by "Document Title / Document Name". The business is requesting the default sort be on "Date Added / Added On" instead. Currently we can't find a way to change the default sort or...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Run type field in the data-source on the dashboard

With the new licensing format, the customer has no way to follow the usage of his license via the dashboard, because we have no information in the data source on whether that record is from an attended bot or unattended bot execution.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Ability to print signed PDFs

CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: The customer wants to print signed documents in the ICN environment. This results in an error message when printing some documents. There is an open APAR for this: IO29232: WHEN TRYING TO PRINT A SIGNED PDF, THE PROCESS ENDS...
9 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Future consideration

It would be preferred to be able to make a choice list value as deprecated or similar so that it could still be valid but not selected for new docs. 

ADMINISTRATION CONSOLE > Object Store 1. It would be preferred to be able to make a choice list value as deprecated or similar so that it could still be valid but not selected for new docs. 2. Looking to make "choiceless" items that are valid v...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Improvements in TM and PM integration - Add TM recorded Task to continue a event log based Process.

See the following situation: 1- An application emits event logs for a specific App as part of the process. 2- Later, the users must perform a series of actions on their machines to complete the process. Those actions are recorded in IBM Task Minin...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

Support for editing Office 365 tools directory online for self managed ECM environments

Many customer subscribes to Office365 as SaaS. They edit and store powerpoint or excel online without download the office tool on their Laptop. This also enables collaborative editing / co-authoring. For clients running ICN in self-managed environ...
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Customer wants to be able to sign documents from Content Naviagtor

Currently Davita has to use DocuSign for all signatures and every signature has a cost. If there was a way to include a signature option with a custom plugin or with Daeja, this could save the customer having to pay for every signature.
7 months ago in Content Navigator 1 Functionality already exists

BAW repository

BAW has no general repo. in 2024 in BAW its hard to control changes done for a project which uses heavely Tracks its also annoying to manually make this changes between tracks which are prone to errors. Please develop a repository in which Merge a...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Support for sites that block automation

The only supported way to automate a web application is to use the IBM RPA Selenium web driver, with this, some sites are blocking access. A form of web automation without the use of the Chrome Driver would be extremely useful, so websites would ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Not under consideration

Display error messages in deployment report

During deployment time, if ruleset generation or deployment failed, for example GBRED0040E as a result of variable not initialized, the trace is shown in workspace log, not in Rule designer nor deployment report. The deployment report indicates "A...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration