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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:

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,

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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...

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Re-assignment of Work items in Bulk

User/role should be able to reassign BPM workflow items in bulk for other users/roles, the same as it's in: [Case Features (Case Manager) - How to reassign tasks (By code) | BPM, Workflow, and Case (ibm.com)|https://community.ibm.com/community/use...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Automatic backup execution for the Scripts being edited.

While a script is being edited, being a new script or an old one under review, from time to time (every 3 minutes for example - but let the user configure that time) IBM RPA should perform a backup of the script in the current state. This is impor...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists

CMIS + OAUTH - Local Signature Verification

Background The way OAUTH was delivered in CMIS was... 1. User logs into identify provider and user receives a token 2. User passes that token to CMIS 3. CMIS reaches out to the identity provider and asks if the token is valid The enhancement my or...
about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Functionality already exists

Allow CSV mapping through API

We are currently trying to build an automated option for creating projects. For now, the only part we can't automate is the CSV mapping (we've already explored the option of using an IDP file, but we can only create an IDP after creating a project...
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

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.
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator 1 Functionality already exists

More dashboard elements allowed

Currently only 8 dashboard elements are allowed we should be able to have more like our competitors do
about 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Functionality already exists

Add Merge & Split action on Document Widget from Case Client

From the document widget in the case client, the business user can't make a merge and split on a document because the action in the context menu is not implemented. This function is available in the "browse" section.
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

Tag a task or process as urgent

Gives the possibility to tag a task or process as urgent so we can filter, search and view things to do urgently
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Functionality already exists

Eliminate the need to have BWL open before clicking on a link to a process blueprint

Currently, you must have BWL open before you can click on a link to a process blueprint that someone sends you. This is an extra step which causes confusion to users who are not aware that you must first have BWL open before you can click on the l...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Functionality already exists

Parameter in Control Center for insert OCR/Captcha API-key

The Control Center can have an OCR and Captcha Api-Key configuration parameter, for all scripts to use automatically without the need to enter command by command Today if the customer has a large number of bots, they need to update command by c...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Functionality already exists