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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...

All ideas

Improve the process for splitting documents

When I split a document, I would like for it to automatically update to “Main page” so I do not have to manually do it and click “submit” and exit any pop up errors for changes. Currently, we are stuck with the present manual process of changing t...
almost 3 years ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Future consideration

Create Process Diagrams with AI

It would be a 'game changer' if users are able to auto create BPMN process diagrams in Blueworks by simply attaching process documentation, which details process steps end-to-end. Either through custom or default prompts, it would be highly benefi...
11 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Planned for future release

Provide a containerized image of Content Manager OnDemand

The page Building and deploying Content Manager OnDemand in a Docker container (ibm.com) explains how to set up, configure and run a standard version of CMOD in a Docker container. It would be more useful that IBM provides a cloud ready version of...
about 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration

Visibility of available machine hours with gaps for computer runtime usage

Visibility of available machine hours with gaps for computer runtime usage with no need to manually control them.
6 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Submitted

Predefined nested sorting for inbasket

Load the inbaskets with pre defined nested sorting (More than 1 field) Allow users / admins to change the fields based on needs. Persist the nested sort after the filter
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Support of Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Systems to run against Read Only RDBMS and File Storage

Typically on premise systems have either a Production/Disaster Recovery or Production/Bunker/Disaster Recovery live / production system deployment model. In this model, if changes (upgrades, patches, JVM arguments & configs, web container patc...
about 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Please add EPV and ENV binding options in CV

Please add (next to "Business Data", "Configuration Options" and "Localization Resources") ability to bind EPVs and ENVs in "Variables Declarations" in "Variables" in Coach View designer. You already have "Exposed Process Variables" and "Environme...
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Bookmark case in Case Manager

Certain business users open multiple cases at a time e.g. 7-8 cases. If a session is idle for certain time, business losses all the cases they had opened earlier and need to all the cases again. Is there a way they can bookmark a case so that they...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

It would be great to export metadatas into a UTF-8 without BOM txt file.

By default the export actions only permits to export into a UTF-8 BOM or UTF-16 BOM.It would be great to export metadatas into a UTF-8 without BOM txt file. And why not allowing other encoding (ie : ANSI, CP1252) ? It could be a modification of th...
almost 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Under review

Interaction with iframes in different contexts

All web commands do not support the interaction in iframes with different contexts. For example: A website with a page that contains five iframe contexts, with all of them being identical. Field1 Field2 Field3 Field4 Field5 If I try to interact wi...
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0