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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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BAMoE on RHOCP on GCP

Customer needs to deploy BAMoE on GCP in Q4 2024. For this to happen, customer needs BAMoE supported on RHOCP (or GKE) on GCP. IBM needs the approval from D&B ARB (Architectural Review Board) this month to approve the project. For this, we nee...
6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Functionality already exists

Enhancing a IBM Datacap ruleset to capture additional data to the xml file for exporting to FileNET repository.

IBM Datacap "OutlookMessageToImageAndAttachment" ruleset currently does not stored the attachment name in the xml file as a variable. Unlike vscan it store the attachment name in the xml file as a variable. Customer would like to have the "Outlook...
about 2 months ago in Datacap 1 Under review

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...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Emergency exit for a running bot

Currently, RPA is not offering any way to abort a bot when it's running if a user does not have admin rights to kill the running process. Even if the user has such admin rights, it's not recommended to use this method as it will remain unclear whi...
6 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

Scrolling within a dialog

If a bot needs user input, a message dialog will usually be used allowing the user to enter the required information. However, it's not possible to scroll up and down within such a dialog. Especially, when providing more than just one row or one s...
6 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

FileNet Upgrade Blue/Green Deployments

Problem Statement We currently run FileNet on Openshift. We have a blue/green deployment strategy when upgrading openshift, so our customers have 100% uptime when we perform our upgrades. Traditionally, IBM upgrades, and specifically upgrades that...
4 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Customize and add new assigned task email templates

•How to modify existing templates externalmailprocesslink_{0}.html and externalmailnoprocess_{0}.html •How can I provide a custom once to be used as templates? Custom styling, corporate design, custom order of data, logos, ... •What are the data a...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Extend ICM Operations to set Creator based on parameter

Provide the ability to set the Creator when using ICM_Operations such as createDiscretionaryTaskWithProps and addCommentToCurrentTask. Currently, the Creator is always the system user configured for the JAAS User Name on the Component Queue. Attem...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Display error messages in deployment report

During deployment time, if ruleset generation or deployment failed, for example GBRED0040E as a result of variable not initialized, the trace is shown in workspace log, not in Rule designer nor deployment report. The deployment report indicates "A...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Enhancement Request: Handling SAP Menu Naming in IBM RPA

When interacting with SAP through IBM RPA, selecting the "Anlegen..." option opens a subsequent menu with a different name. This behavior doesn't align with our standard, where subsequent levels should retain the name of the triggering option. So ...
4 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration