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).


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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:

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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,

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  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
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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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All ideas

    FileNet Object Stores and definitions created by a CR Defintion

    It would be really good have a FileNet Operator that created object stores and definitions based on a CRD in OpenShift with an appropriate operator. This would also help in the installation process making things far easier to debug.
    over 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

    Reset the overdue flag upon changing the custom data field without leaving and coming back to the same step

    When the custom date field is updated to future date for overdue cases from BAW/Case Manager screen, the overdue flag should reset and recalculate the deadline, without moving the worktime from its current step.
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Task mining - obfuscation - options (additional description)

    In order to make the application more intuitive, the icon marked in red (options) should be described without having to click on it (next to the icon there should be a description of what is included in the options, e.g. visible, anonymised)
    11 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

    Decision Center is not supporting active/active which is required to update DB sequences to move traffic

    Currently, Decision Center does not support traffic in an active-active setup across data centers. This limitation prevents updating sequences when shifting traffic between data centers. We are looking for a permanent solution to address this limi...
    2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

    Possibility of starting JVM when ROS mode is enabled on Primary BAW host

    Customer wanted to enable Read Only Stand By (ROS) mode on DR server and start the JVM. However, when they enabled the ROS mode and starting JVM was not successfully. They wanted this type of enhancement to use when they migrate from Db2 to Oracle...
    2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    CP4BA form factors should only install those operators required by selected capabilities

    When installing any pattern of Cloud Pak, the deployment installs all operators, including those that explicitly cover functionalities not required by the selected capabilities. Similarly, when installing standalone versions of DBA products that r...
    11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    use of MIME type application/pdf in OpenAPI Rest service invocation

    Business case use the need of implementation of PDF in rest api services as evolving technology
    about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Support for sites that block automation

    The only supported way to automate a web application is to use the IBM RPA Selenium web driver, with this, some sites are blocking access. A form of web automation without the use of the Chrome Driver would be extremely useful, so websites would ...
    about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Not under consideration

    Rule Model Extension Properties no longer show asterisks for mandatory properties

    Business console in ver 9.x no longer showing mandatory attributes when authoring business rules. This issue relates to properties that have required=”true” as their attribute. The mandatory attributes were clearly displayed in the old enterprise ...
    11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Is a defect

    Default sort for case documents widget

    When the user opens a case, the document widget defaults to sorting by "Document Title / Document Name". The business is requesting the default sort be on "Date Added / Added On" instead. Currently we can't find a way to change the default sort or...
    about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

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