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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

All ideas

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[Action Hub] Support for Creating a service integration with OAuth authetication method

Enable secure, standards-based connectivity by allowing users to create service integrations using OAuth 2.0 authentication. This feature streamlines third-party system connections, supports token-based authorization flows (e.g., authorization cod...
about 1 month ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

The option "Require users to save new documents and folders in folders" -> disallow users adding folders to root for P8 ObjectStores

CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY:In the General tab of the ICN desktop configuration, there is the following option:"Require users to save new documents and folders in a folder" The tooltip for which states:"Select this option if you want to require users to...
6 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

Datacap Scan & Verify panel to display image in dual window and to allow thumbnail and image viewer to be separated

Allow dual window to have a separate dialogue box or viewer. One for the image viewer and one for the thumbnail viewer.
26 days ago in Datacap 1 Submitted

[Action Hub] Support for rotative passwords using SMTP server

Enable secure email delivery by supporting rotative passwords for SMTP authentication stored into a Vault. Instead of relying on static credentials, the rely on Vault Server (Authorization) and get temporary passwords associated with a specific id...
about 1 month ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Rediscover option for external services

If an external service is created based on the discovery of a Java, REST, or Web Service, a rediscover button is essential. This button would enable the updating of the methods associated with that service or defined object structure without the n...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Enable Bearer Token Authentication for FileNet Deployment Manager in an LDAP-less environment

We request that Bearer Token Authentication be enabled for FileNet Deployment Manager. This functionality already exists when authenticating with a custom Java API (jace.jar) client application. Please include this authentication method for FileNe...
4 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

in Workflow capability it is not possible to update the value of an XMLElement variable of a tasks using the Process Inspector or the REST APIs.

If you create a private variable of a task of kind XMLElement and you want to change its value from the process inspector or usingn the REST APIs, you simply get an error. The impossibility to change those variable it is preventing the correction ...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Unable to delete the branched snapshots through Swagger API

When attempting to delete branched snapshots using the Swagger UI, the operation fails with the following error: “Could not find the track with acronym: MigrationTrack.” However, the same snapshot deletion is successful when performed through the ...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

To extend the current indent guide line and/or to change font size in designer mode to increase the number of lines included.

In complex automations developed in IBM Robotic Process Automation Designer, workflows often contain multiple nested conditions, loops, and exception-handling blocks that are currently displayed at the same visual level. This makes large scripts d...
23 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Multiple documents via Docusign in Content Navigator

Select multiple documents to send via Docusign for signature in Content Navigator - Extension product: Docusign Plugin Users would find it helpful, to combine multiple documents (regarding one matter i. e. annual report or contract negotiations) i...
14 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted