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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...

All ideas

SOAP Web Services Policy set and bindings for inbound and outbound integration should be supported for CP4BA

Traditional Business Automation Workflow (BAW) supports defining policy sets and bindings for both inbound and outbound integrations. A customer who intends to migrate their existing BAW inbound and outbound integration to IBM Cloud Pak for Busine...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Keyboard accessibility issue: Tooltip not displayed for year values in Date field on Add Document page

Tooltip information associated with year values should be displayed and accessible during keyboard navigation.
4 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Under review

XU persistence statistic in db or configmap

Currently XU persistence statistic resets with pod restart, there no directions to persist this somewhere
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Tooltip not displayed for year values in Date field on Add Document page

On the Add Document page, when navigating the date field using keyboard only, the year values do not display the additional tooltip information that is otherwise available through mouse interaction. As a result, keyboard users do not have access t...
4 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Under review

Add support to search for custom objects and edit their properties

Supporting custom objects in ICN would be awesome as not everthing is a document or folder. Searching custom objects and edition their properties, sercurity and so on (Edit Properties Dialog) would be the first step.
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 2 Future consideration

Customer's Plugins do not work anymore when activating the new CSP support for removeUnsafeEval and removeUnsafeInline

Please refer to ICN Forums here for details: https://github.ibm.com/ECM-Forums/icn-internal-forum/issues/181 A customer's Development team opened a Case with the following Problem Description: ===================================================We ...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Implement a Custom NFS / PVC Mount (/ecmconfig) - for cpe-deploy and navigator deploy configuration files

As we move to CP4BA, our Team needs to deploy ICN plugin and Code Module Configuration files in CP4BA Navigator and CPE Deploy pods. The purpose of this request is to attain support for WestPac to create a Custom PVC / NFS share (/ecmconfig) for s...
6 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

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
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Process mining - project archiving capability

Process mining - project archiving capability In the projects/backups tab, it should be possible to generate a file for a given project for archiving purposes. The project file should include the remaining options (insight and actions, model setti...
11 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Add support for HEIC formats

Our claims department receives images from people taking pictures with their phones in the field. IPhone users some time send us HEIC format images. We would like to store these files natively in our IBM Content Manager 8 system. We can add suppor...
about 2 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted