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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:

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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...

All ideas

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Persist data between documents in a batch in Datacap Navigator

We have customized the index screen so when the indexer selects the 'Persist Date' checkbox, the indexing screen remembers the received date and populates the field for each document in the batch. When the indexer selects the 'Persist Doc Type' ch...
12 months ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Simplify searching an individual Application Group

Searching today follows one of three paths: Based on ODCriteria values Based on SQL Based on an ODNamedQuery The only provision in ODWek to allow restricting searches to a given Application Group is via ODFolder.setApplGroupForSearchWithSQL(). My ...
9 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Not under consideration

Would like be able to specify a default sort for ICN's work in-basket including whether the sort is descending.

This feature would allow users to have sort for the in-basket automatically applied without the user needing to click on the column headers.
5 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

ICCSAP client-side encryption

The client is currently using ICCSAP on AIX and Storage Protect. Customers require the ability to secure data. Currently, it is not possible to do client-side encryption. For API clients, encryption requires flagging when opening SP connection whi...
8 months ago in Content Collector for SAP 0 Future consideration

enhance windows client hold processing from system load folder

when selecting a specific load from the System Load and requesting it to show holds, it should also list implied holds. Release Holds option should have the ability to remove implied holds
about 1 month ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Under review

Role Process Application Administrators should be able to access environment variables of their process application in Process Admin Console

At VKB we are currently discussing the use of the role „Process Application Administrators“. Our understanding about such a role is different to how it is implemented in BAW. Users in the role „Process Application Administrators“ have the appropri...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Define composite search criteria on more than one property template in Search Template

Over the years of using the FileNet Content management system, customer environment end up having alias property templates to describe the same index information of the document. A line of business might create a document and index a property on a...
3 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Audit user actions and login info in ICN

As the Microsoft office add-on is a separately licensed feature to use within the ICN Virtual viewer, our client required to list out the users who use the viewer to view the office documents. As an application support team, we do not have a way t...
3 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Request to automate the setup procedure of Google Cloud storage during BAW installation in Cloud Container Platform

Hi BAW product team, With reference to the "PMR TS012347042 - How to automate to install GCS advance storage", everytime when our customer install the BAW (e.g. BAW 22.0.2) in google cloud container platform (i.e. GKE), our customer requires to ma...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide Out of Box Customization Option for Email Template(from Portal)

This is a useful feature to be considered where developers/admins can configure the default process portal email notification template by customizing - HTML content Process variables including exposed business data
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration