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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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Content Navigator should support uploading large files to P8 without completely storing them into ICN container memory

There is a business need to upload certain files (larger than 2GB, up to 9GB) through ICN into the P8 repository. This does not happen often, so licensing Aspera and installing a whole infrastructure is not worth the effort for these few files a y...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

Ability to limit the scope of the ODM Decision Centre Archival to Recycle Bin baseline only

While there appears to be no way to permanently delete the rule artefacts once they have been deleted and reside in the recycle bin, a subject of an existing RFE, a potential work around to manage the scope of the archive ant script to the recycle...
over 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Delivered

We need access control to block report generation for specific roles

We have created read-only roles for projects and the users can view the rule content in the decision center. But they shouldn't be allowed to copy the data outside. The Export project is one gap and we have already raised an RFE to get access cont...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Delivered

[Terminal] Add the 'Disconnect' command automatically

Add the 'Disconnect' command when closing the recorder screen
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

[Terminal] Automatically connect

After entering connection data and clicked in Save, the IBM Studio could already open the window recorder with the connection open.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Delivered

Setting the order of fields on a step in a workflow instead of automatically sorting them alphabetically

In the Content Navigator step processor, the fields should be in the order defined in the workflow, so that the most important can be configured as part of the workflow. Eg. Customer Name, Customer Email, Address etc. appear in this order as per r...
over 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

Hide saved searches from All Searches node in Content Navigator Search

Workplace XT allows search templates to be hidden in Search view, while still allowing a user to find and execute them (assuming they have sufficient privileges). ICN saved searches (equivalent to WPXT search templates), on the other hand always d...
over 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

Enhancement of where used functionality in Glossary

For each Glossary we have "where used" option which displays the list of artefacts that contains the specific glossary value. When we click on a particular process map it opens in the same page.
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Delivered

CMIS and ICN in combination with Application Edition Manager (AEM) / Correct adjustment of Class Loader Order settings

When using Application Edition Manager (AEM) in Websphere Application Server in combination with a deployment of IBM CMIS and IBM Content Navigator, the Class Loader Order settings are incorrectly adjusted. This results that CMIS and ICN are not w...
almost 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

Improve Fastpath parsing performance

Rulesets with large decision tables and using Fastpath execution modes are taking a very long time to parse during a deployment. Improve parsing performance for rulesets with large decision tables using Fastpath execution modes.
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Delivered