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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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Improve Entry Template loading speed by optimizing client-side validation

Optimizing the validation process will enhance the end-user experience, save time, and improve efficiency.
2 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Under review

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

There should be a feature to limit the number of workitems that can be created in a Case Client In-Basket.

There is pagination feature of maximum of 50 workitems per page in the In-basket. The performance of the In-Basket can be degraded when there are tens of thousands of workitems in the In-Basket. To improve the performance, there should be a limit ...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Future consideration

To create a exportable account backup of all artefacts and structure, so the account owner could create a account backup, which might be restored even in another Blueworks account.

As an account owner would like to have an option to backup my account and export the back in a form which might be restored in another Blueworks account (e.g.: in case user has multiple accounts or opens new account). The back up should contain al...
11 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Add certificate/s to HTTP Request #SPGI #IBMRPA

We were working in an MVP whose scope was to mark in Trusteer if some items are or not fraud. In order to do this marking activity, robot should invoke Trusteer using its API - FeedbackLoop. During the MVP build phase, we have faced a blocking iss...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Managing navigator access points to allow multiple clients on the same URL in a CP4BA environment.

Clients who want to access the Case Client, using other different URLs instead of the default one. For now when they are trying to access the case client from a different route, it fails with CORS error. Seems the content navigator plugin is calli...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 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

Scan to PDF in Datacap Navigator

We would like the ability to scan directly to an ICN entry template as a PDF. The Datacap Navigator transactional capture allows scanning directly to an entry template but only as a jpeg or tif image. We have customers that don't necessarily need ...
over 1 year ago in Datacap 0 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 ...
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhanced Handling of Custom Toolbar Buttons in IBM RPA for SAP

IBM RPA’s current method of interacting with SAP toolbar buttons using toolbar IDs (e.g., Toolbar(0)) causes issues with custom buttons, such as freezing the SAP application when interacting with the second custom button. This is not a defect but ...
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration