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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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Configuration option for batch id reset on app base

Dear team, currently the batch id gets reset every year as explained in the link below: => https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/batch-ids%C2%A0generated%C2%A0resets-annually-ibm-datacap As this wasn't documented before, we used the batch_id to gen...
5 days ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

Ability to change email addresses of users in a list

Customer needs a way to bulk change email addresses. Especially on SAML2 customers.
6 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Search Functionality: Allow the user to return to the searched list after opening a model to review

Today we complete a search and then have to complete the full search over again every time we go into a blueprint to look at it. We need the ability to return to the search results after opening an item from the search list without having to start...
6 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Search Functionality: Allow for the curated search list to be exported

The ability to export the searched list is very important because I currently get requests from associates wanting to know what models we have relating to a topic or keyword. I complete my search and then need to screen print a list for them or ty...
6 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Add the ability to store multi-value Attribute data in Enterprise Content Manager

IBM Content Manager has multi-value attributes giving the ability to store more than 1 value in each record/document set of data. This is something we use all the time for our claim documents. Currently we can add the additional values during the ...

Need to add more details when user is updating "Edit a security configuration" on solution

As part of security auditing, our auditing team wants to see who is running the "Edit a security configuration" on solution. Also we want to see, actor, target, action, timestamp in the "Detail Security Configuration Log.log" All the below actions...
13 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

JAR packaged for building extensions and plugins avaliable from maven

To develop CP4BA plugins and extensions developers need IBM Jar-s to compile against.The only instruction points to download them from the runtimehttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/configure-your-environment-use-case-mananager-java-api-ibm-cloud-pa...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Audit requirement in IBM BAW considering the login page of Process Portal

Audit requirement in IBM BAW considering the login page of Process Portal 1. Allowing users to reset the password on the first time login or when the password is expired. 2. Users able to change the password, set password expiry based on the passw...
14 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Auto-create fields based on "empty" sample

In cases where a PDF has hundreds of checkboxes - like a user survey form might have, it becomes tedious to define all the fields. The current design forces each field to be manually created with name and type upfront, before you can map it to a l...
19 days ago in Automation Document Processing 0 Submitted

Enhancements in Infinity Loop Detection Properties for batch runs or schedules

Existing Loop Detection Property : <service-engine> <loop-detection-duration merge="replace">240</loop-detection-duration> <loop-detection-exception merge="replace">true</loop-detection-exception> </service-engine&...
20 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted