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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

Resolve separation of duties issue to address compliance issue

This request would be useful for everyone that requires separation of duties for compliance. We have "Business" users that create table changes on a Branch. These branches are then merged to Business Change Branch, then Stage, then Prod by our "De...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Future consideration

Ability to restrict the file upload of 0 kb or a corrupted file

Ability to restrict the file upload of 0 kb or a corrupted file & Ability to restrict the file upload larger than a specific size Corrupted files are accidentally uploaded to FileNet via Content Navigator.
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Be able to run the Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) LDAP synchronization (ARSLSYNC) program on a remote server

We would prefer to run the ARSLSYNC program remotely, with the ars.cfg configured on the same remote server with required LDAP Parameters to complete the SYNC with a specific LDAP server. Reason is, is that the LDAP Parameters configured in ars.cf...
over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

Toggle feature flags

The question around implementing feature toggles for ODM came up in one of our problem-solving workshop. There was a request for an update on any challenges to implementation or our next steps. Can we have feature level toggles in ODM? If already ...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Not under consideration

Add links to IBM RPA courses and the official documentation in IBM RPA Studio's Start Page

Add widgets with links to IBM RPA associate courses and IBM RPA's official documentation in IBM RPA Studio's Start Page to increase user visibility to courses and the documentation. The attached image shows the Start Page. Adding visibility to edu...
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

ICN theme to support changing of font size, text color, etc. by user performance

Currently, only user can select pre-defined theme styles, default or some classic layouts only, user cannot further adjust font size, color or style such as bold etc.
over 4 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

We need support of complex type WSDL in WebPD

The XSD type schema included in the WSDL uses the construct of derived complex objects in many places. It builds a complex type hierarchy where both the base types and the derived types are used in parallel.As per ticket TS002481263BPM Standard ha...
about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Issue with updating WAS Admin passwords for IBM BAW where special characters are included as part of password

Hi IBM Team, We are trying to automate the solution for updating WAS admin passwords [CELLADMIN and BPMADMIN] that get generated by the CyberArk Vault. As suggested by IBM Support, used Jython list syntax to change the wsadmin Passwords but still ...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Send notification email when task status changes to at risk or overvue

This is using processApps. Only when a new task is created do users receive an email. However we would like the option to also receive emails when a task changes status to at risk and overdue. This allows us to use the processApp feature to schedu...
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Modernize the Decision Center GUI to streamline the access of information and improve the user experience while viewing and editing rules.

Improve the overlook look and feel of the GUI. Allow a way to view correlations between decision tables in a graphical topology. Allow data integrity to be maintained across related decision tables.
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Future consideration