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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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Provide documentation on release containers images

Helps customer plan ahead for release upgrades. Customer is asking for official documentation on each upcoming release that lists container images files names/digests, sizes, and versions without requiring customer to download images from the icr....
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Allow Unfiled Documents in IBM CMIS 1.0

We are forced to downgrade from CMIS 1.1 to 1.0 in order to avoid using the Apache OpenCMIS which has been sunsetted by Apache. Almost all of our documents are currently uploaded without adding them to a folder. This is not supported by CMIS 1.0 a...
about 2 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Under review

CMOD Thick Client provide Active Session Timeout option

Currently OnDemand Windows thick Client provides setting for Inactive Session Timeout, but does not provide a setting for Active Session Timeout. On zOS, even after ARSSOCKD is cycled, a user who was connected to the server remained active and is ...
about 2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

Online Backup of CP4BA deployment

Currently we cannot perform online backup in CP4BA, We have Fusion recipes but those are not taking complete backup of the CP4BA namespace. It will be great if online backup of CP4BA namespace can be made possible. The online backup tool for Cp4BA...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Under review

JAR packaged for building extensions and plugins avaliable from maven

To develop CP4BA plugins and extensions developers need IBM Jar-s to compile against.The only instruction points to download them from the runtimehttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/configure-your-environment-use-case-mananager-java-api-ibm-cloud-pa...
2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

Filenet on Nutanix Hypervisor

Several ISA customers have deployed or planning to deploy traditional FileNet components on the Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor(AHV) due to cost advantages over VMware . While these deployments function as expected, customers are encountering support...
3 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Under review

Get Office Value Command - Retrieve Entire DataTable from Excel Files

The Get Office Value command currently lacks the capability to retrieve the entire datatable from an Excel file. This functionality is essential for workflows that require extracting and processing complete datasets from Excel. Without this capabi...
4 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

A mobile app which tells doctors which medicines are new in the market in their specialization

Doctors would be able to easily prescribe the medicine and would not require the need of medical representative. The medicine companies will put their new product in the database. Also the GPS will tell which pharmacy nearby has the medicine.
4 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Under review

Configurable option in the Datacap Application Manager for record keeping

Datacap statistics - When you process documents, Datacap tasks gather statistics that are related to each batch job and saves them in the Engine database of the application.This should be a configurable option in the Datacap Application Manager wh...
4 months ago in Datacap 0 Under review

Disable shortcut popup in IBM Datacap Desktop

Hello, A user scans a batch by clicking on the “Scan” shortcut, the scanning interface opens. The user scans a batch, then clicks on “Submit”. A first popup appears, then disappears after 10 seconds. The scan interface closes and a second popup ap...
4 months ago in Datacap 0 Under review