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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 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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Ageing Report

An overview of maps including the last update date and time to help assess the aging of the maps. 1. Creation, Publish & Last update date for maps in BWL 2. Overview of blueprints which are more than 3/6/9/12 months from last update. 3. Highli...
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Needs more information

Possibility to customize security configuration privileges

As a business user with law requirements to keep information for specific period of time we want to make sure that information is safe from deletion. Right now, REST API "delete case" is configured so user who has manage privilege on a case role i...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Read & write parameters in RPA Control Center #SPGI #ClientEngineering #RPA

There are some situations, especially in orchestration processes, where we need to pass information between one process and the next one. For example: counters, boolean or text values. It would be very useful to have, not only read access, but as ...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

PFS saved search to support TWSearch JS API

Client is running on BAW on premise. They have TWSearch JS API in applications, and users are using saved search in Process Portal. The problem is, client gets saved search query performance issue in PROD from time to time, and they have big runti...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

split screen that half of it will show the whole image instead of thumbnail

ease of reading document in ICN
3 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Future consideration

ICC Mail should support start supporting MS Graph Rest API (eliminate need to install Outlook client on server)

In current versions of Content Collector 4.0.1, ICC relies on an Outlook client installation to get access to required libraries and the option to create a profile. This requirement is more often refused by security departments. Microsoft strategy...
5 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 1 Future consideration

Check status that are "Running" or "Cancelling"

If there are any problems with the communication between the client and the Server, you may have problems when a bot is running or canceling an instance of a process. The bot will get stuck with these statuses and will not be changed. A good idea ...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Is a defect

Make the IBM Content Navigator Edit Client Service temp-path configurable

It's by design that the ICN Edit Client downloads documents to the %TEMP% and %APPDATA% directories. It would improve usability to make the app/temp folder configurable in the Edit Client's configuration file. For security reasons the default loca...
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Enable wTM service to process all request headers in lower case

This request is to enable wTM API services to comply to the networking standards (RFC 2616 Sec 4.2 and RFC 7230 Sec 3.2) which state that HTTP headers are case insensitive. This issue was identified during our testing with IBM Cloud Load Balancer....
over 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

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.
9 months ago in Content Navigator 1 Functionality already exists