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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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SSO support for OIDC in Edit Services for Cloud Pak for Business Automation

Actually Edit services does not support SAML SSO authentication, requiring users already authenticated in Navigator to repeat the authentication when editing documents and when authentication and authorization are separated, this may introduce fur...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 3 Delivered

be able to switch to LDAP group if same-named BPM group already exists (without the chaos that deleting the BPM group causes)

The current requirement to delete the BPM security group before the same-named LDAP group can be recognized is too destructive: • The deleted security group also might have been a nested group for some other BPM security group. There is not a UI t...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Add possibility to other dates to schedule robots

Add option to choose a specific date to schedule a robot, like monthly, or quarter (e.g. 2021/05/25). Today we only can schedule a robot per the weekdays.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Delivered

Regression of all assigned work in basket in BPM/task side

On the P8 side this functionality works very well where if the task is assigned to the role other users of the same role can view the tasks assigned for different users on the same role. But on BPM this functionality should be introduced too, as o...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

When you change pages on the ICN content list widget, go to the top of the next page vs. using the location from the previous page

The IBM Case Manager in-basket widget uses ICN content list widget to display the contents. If the In-basket has more items than will fit on a single page, when you navigate to another page, the view remembers the location from the page you were o...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

Provide access to Cloud Pak License Service Reporter Dashboards for non-administrative users

The License Reporter component of CP foundational services provide a very good overview about current and historical license consumption across deployed instances and clusters. Currently only Cloud Pak users which have the "Cluster Admin" or "Clou...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Delivered

Have a public API to queue in the first queue of the process

When I use Process Orchestration, with systemic queue, I need to insert a message in the first queue, to start the execution. But I can only insert via bot, so I can't make another system(BAW) start my Process, inserting an item in the queue.So I ...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

When using the get next function, if the user picks the last item in the inbasket they get a message "no more work items" when the dispatch the work item

The behavior where if the last work item is picked, and it reports 'no more items' is the behavior that was inherited from the prior release and is how the in-basket current processes work. If the customer would like it to behave differently, then...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Include BPM step in Timeline Widget view

Topic Timeline widget, meaning the widget used to see the detailed progress of one specific case: It shows the timeline in regards of all activities and work item/steps from the case creation 2. The pain point There’s a major “case follow-up/track...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Delivered

Audit Trail for Process Portal and Workplace dashboards

Include audit trail for users actions on Process Portal and Workplace dashboards on BAW container and VM version. Those actions include update due date, priority, reassignment, for reassignment, both assigner and assignee info need to capture
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered