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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

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Sorting Document classes in Datacap Desktop Batch view

List of document classes in Datacap Desktop Batch view are not sorted in alphabetical order. There is no configuration or settings available to do this in existing Datacap Desktop environment.
6 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Support for Mac as an RPA client

Currently, RPA clients only support Windows, Since many business users use Mac(iOS), supporting Mac will provide more opportunities for use.
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under 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
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Active Active Usage of FileNet Workflows across different OCP Cluster during the Workflow Transfer, Region Initialisation etc

The customer TTB is implementing CP4BA FileNet Environment in Active Active PROD Setup across two OCP cluster in different Data Center. Currently its noted that they can run active/active for Process Engine tasks during runtime operations like sta...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration

Tag a task or process as urgent

Gives the possibility to tag a task or process as urgent so we can filter, search and view things to do urgently
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Functionality already exists

Needs of comments historized and cumulatives

When accessing comments, we need a timeline of all comments concerning a workflows or a task to get an overviews of exchanges concerning the subject
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Stop Runtime execution using the Control Center

For now, if you need to stop a scheduled runtime execution that is already running, you need to access the computer and close the WDG.Automation.Agent process. With this new feature, you will not need to access the computer with the runtime, you ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

FileNet Deployment Manager (FDM) allow for one souce object store to many target object stores in half mapping.

Often there is a need to propagate the same object to multiple target object stores for data model consistency or for common configuration / objects shared and used across object stores, examples are: common classes, common property templates, com...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Re-assignment of Work items in Bulk

User/role should be able to reassign BPM workflow items in bulk for other users/roles, the same as it's in: [Case Features (Case Manager) - How to reassign tasks (By code) | BPM, Workflow, and Case (ibm.com)|https://community.ibm.com/community/use...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Need developer to be able to upload a decision service to Decision Center without requiring roles rtsAdmin or rtsInstaller. The core roles grant to much access to developers.

Need functionality that would permit a developer to upload a decision from Rule Designer without giving them rtsAdmin or rtsInstaller permission because they should not require that much permission.
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists