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...
Share feedback 7
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
Share feedback 0

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Move all functionality that requires modification of the product .war files (like secured htds & dynamic domains) into the product itself

With installation and management of the product needing more and more to be 100% automated, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain one-off instances of RES & Decision Center when the DecisionCenter.war and DecisionService.war files have...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Not under consideration

Order Process instances by execution time, not name

When you're working with an orchestration process, you usually want to analyze the instances by date/time of execution, not necessarily by its name. Due to that, we can change the instance list to be ordered by date/time by default, not by name.
9 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Screen repository

Create a repository in order to save the elements retrieved by recorder with the relative image preview. When I have to automate a new use case with the same application, instead of capture a new element, I can get it from the repository and use i...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Support FileNet standalone on VM to be deployed on Liberty

Client has a large FileNet footprint and would like to change the underlying app runtime for their non-containerized VM deployment from WAS to Liberty. They see externalization of configuration as one of the primary benefits.
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Not under 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

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

To refine the code of re-establishing connection with Db2 instead of core dumping when enchanting communication error

Because the customer need to clean core dump log every day, the CMOD & DB2 didn't crash, it cause the IT need to take a lot of time to maintain and handle this problem.
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Not under consideration

Unattended Bot Scheduler is unreliable​, and should work without failures showing clear logging to increase confidence

The scheduler is not reliable. It uses an asynchronous process. As a result, we need to wait until the "trigger event" to know if it worked or not. Because it is asynchronous, we have no confirmation of any error when scheduling an unattended bot....
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Scrolling within a dialog

If a bot needs user input, a message dialog will usually be used allowing the user to enter the required information. However, it's not possible to scroll up and down within such a dialog. Especially, when providing more than just one row or one s...
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Support for Mac as an RPA client

Currently, RPA clients only support Windows, Since many business users use Mac(iOS), supporting Mac will provide more opportunities for use.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

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