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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

All ideas

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Manage default values in decision tables as previously possible in RTS

My users used to define default values in their decision table in RTS. They are not able to do it now in BC.
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Delivered

Assign BPD task to a user or group dynamically

Actor: User needing new feature for assign a BPD task once the task created dynamically depends on different user action.
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Support and allow AWS RDS SQL for the Database platform

As a cloud customer, we are considering moving our SQL implementation to the AWS RDS SQL platform. AWS has recently added support for JDBC XA Transactions, so the AWS RDS SQL platform should be ready for certification and support by IBM FileNet Co...
about 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Delivered

Add column ownerName in ProcessPortal table view

ProcessPortal table view can be modified with custom fields. One of this field is Owner.But Owner field display only user uid not user common name/display name.
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

App and Snapshot filters

It would be nice if we had a filter text input at the top of the Process Applications or Toolkits tabs (next to the "Sort by" button for example) where we could enter a few characters and this would filter the list of Apps/Toolkits based on that n...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Support for Microsoft Edge based on Chromium browser

Microsoft Edge based on Chromium is the corporate standard for many enterprise customers.
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Delivered

Properties in Property Table should not be all required

When we use property table in the BAW case builder, we have optional properties, but the widget always make all properties required, it is not make sense.
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Improving viewing Decision Tables in Decision Modeler when there are large number of columns

When working on A Decision Model, when trying to work on a Decision Table with many columns or a very large column, the horizontal scroll bar does not appear, and some columns are not properly readable. When working on a Decision Service, there is...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Delivered

Cp4ba needs a unified portal

Obviously, cp4ba is a solution composed of multiple products (BAW, ECM, ICN, RPA, ODM, UMS, etc.), but from the perspective of customers, they think it is a product. Because it is composed of multiple products, customers have a very poor experienc...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Delivered

Fix Restrictions for System Vault Credentials

As of now, all system vault credentials are accessible by every user in the control center. Even if a user is not in the respective group for the credential, they are able to access them via "get system vault." However, local credentials are only...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered