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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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Content services graph QL Api's for on-prem

this will helpful for more collaborations with FileNet.
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 2 Delivered

Enable the insertion of items in the native queue by HTTP Request.

On the IBM RPA tool system queue provider, the only way to put a message/intance in the queue, it's by the tool itself. It will be much better, if we could insert queue instances using HTTP Request, Rest or Soap. That way we can start de RPA proce...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

ODM should support one of the latest Oracle database versions

We are running on one of the latest ODM versions - 8.10.3 and are using Oracle 12.1.0 as back end database. There is a DB upgrade taking place in our organization from current version to 19.6.0. The applications which ODM interacts with are all se...
about 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 5 Delivered

Content Manager z/OS passphrase for Library Server

Content Manager for z/OS to support passphrases that are more than 8 characters. The customer (State of Illinois Secretary of State) is required to support passphrases by June 30 2021.
about 3 years ago in Content Manager (CM8) 1 Delivered

Complete diff between snapshots in DC

Limitation:if a user updates an Excel file as a resource file and then updates some dynamic domains in the BOM, none of these changes are listed in the compare view between 2 snapshots (or between a snapshot and the current state) I did check with...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Delivered

DE: Support for custom methods(operators) in decision tables

We are unable to define custom methods in boot.bom to use in decision tables for DE. Extending boot.bom works only for classic engine, and IBM support clarified that boot.bom is hardcoded for DE which is different than the one used for classic eng...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Delivered

Add the ability to only sync users to ARSLSYNC in Content Manager OnDemand/CMOD 10.1/10.5

We paid for a custom program from IBM, LDAP SYNC (Rob Russell developed this program), that allowed the synchronization of users to CMOD 9.5. Upon upgrading to 10.1 this program ceased to work and we were told to switch to ARSLSYNC. However, ARSLS...
over 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Delivered

Fix Automation Anywhere Diagnostic Utility

Our team is troubleshooting some different issues on our botrunners and the Automation Anywhere Diagnostic Utility would have been a huge help in pinpointing the root cause. Automation Anywhere's Diagnostic Utility is an automated checkpoint verif...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Delivered

RPA - Support for language: Portuguese BR

The support to language Portuguese - BR should be available for RPA v11.0.0.8 On the link bellow (Automation Anywhere doc) is saying that Portuguese - BR is a supported language. It is on the column Internationalization (Operating System and Chara...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Delivered

Copy Activities Across Tabs

Sometimes when an activity is copied across tabs, either an old copied activity is placed or Blueworks Live doesn't recognize that anything that has been copied.
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Delivered