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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).


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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
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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Nested Service flow caching

It would be nice if "Service flow" caching would work even on child/nested service flows. Now caching only works on the top-level Service Flow. If you enable caching on a child flow, the option will be ignored, and the service will be executed eve...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

When a bot runtime fails, add a shortcut in the web client to send the error and the error line number to the clipboard

In the web client, looking at a job log, we can click on details to see all the logs. Often enough, we only care about the error message that made the bot crash. Having a button that puts the error line number and the error message on the clipboar...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Ability to Add DocuSign Action in Case Information Widget

Current Limitation: There is no direct way to access DocuSign actions within the Case workflow. Desired Behavior: Enable the addition of DocuSign actions within the Case Information Widget, allowing users to initiate DocuSign workflows directly fr...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Ability to Set ACL on DocuSign Actions

Current Limitation: DocuSign actions are not currently governed by user access control. Desired Behavior: Implement Access Control Lists (ACLs) to govern DocuSign actions. Users without the appropriate access level should be restricted from perfor...
3 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Ability to sort Cells in a decision table on the disable/ enable status

Once the customer set sells to 'Disable' (Edit decision Table -> Right click on a cell -> Set as Disable'), they want to sort the columns using this status. Currently it does not allow the customer to push these cells to the bottom or top by...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

IBM JDK 17 support

FileNet Content Management currently supports only IBM JDK 8 with traditional WebSphere. Though IBM JDK 8 is long term supported the industry has already moved to the latest version of JDK. Currently only the liberty supports with latest JDK. Need...
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Old BFM (BPEL) APIs available with valid and complete OpenAPI specifications on BAW swagger.

Currently BAW swagger only offers only BAW Process/Task API (OpenAPI standard) whereas BPEL, HTM and BFM are currently not available on BAW Swagger definition. With the enhancement customer can make use of the standard OpenAPI definition available...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Disable error handling

Add a command to disable error handling after activating it (eg: vb.net "End Try", vba "On Error GoTo 0")
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Add image for captured control

Would be nice to have a highlighted image of every captured control. This would facilitate identifying where in the page is the element captured.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Studio feature to run a script starting from a specific command

It would be very useful for debugging and testing purposes if there was the ability in the IBM RPA Studio to run a script starting from a specific command rather than just from the beginning. So, especially in cases of large scripts, this would al...
8 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration