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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,

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 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

Support Request: OpenShift 4.20, JBoss EAP 8, Spring Boot 3.x/4.x, and OpenJDK 17/21 for BAMOE 8.0.7

BAMOE 8.0.7 currently supports the following software versions, but their end-of-support dates have already passed or are approaching:https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity-reports/report/html/softwareReqsForProduct?deliverable...
8 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Future consideration

Start Browser in Selenium's Stealth Mode

As it is today, IBM RPA's Start Browser command doesn't have the option to start the browser in Selenium's Stealth Mode. The idea is to create a flag to enable this.
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Submitted

when using ICN sync the user should have an option to view the contents of the folder

when using ICN sync the user should have an option to view the contents of the folders locally without actually downloading the file. Ideally we should have an option to view the file names and only download the file locally when needed. This will...
3 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Ability to customize the title that appears when you launch ICN Sync client

We see the following title in the ICN sync client. The customer has deployed a customized navigator with an internal name. 1) We need a way to configure the text IBM Content Navigator Sync 2) We need option to support multiple languages This allow...
3 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

Run type field in the data-source on the dashboard

With the new licensing format, the customer has no way to follow the usage of his license via the dashboard, because we have no information in the data source on whether that record is from an attended bot or unattended bot execution.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Improvements in TM and PM integration - Add TM recorded Task to continue a event log based Process.

See the following situation: 1- An application emits event logs for a specific App as part of the process. 2- Later, the users must perform a series of actions on their machines to complete the process. Those actions are recorded in IBM Task Minin...
about 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

Change Usage Details tab for OCP deployment

The Usage Tab details doesn't reflect the exact Licensing purchased by the user, This is by design, although it would be helpful to change the configuration to reflect the exact License being used by the user's environment.
3 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Add an option (maybe in Decision Deployment Configuration) to disable DT overlap and gap checks

For projects with large number of DTs, overlap and gap checking can take a long time at ruleset building. With this option at project level, it allows user to turn on these checking at rule authoring time, without impact the ruleset build time at ...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Support updating managed files via API call

We should be able to update managed files with an API call even if it is only restricted for use by admins. The only option is to update a managed file without deploying an app is with the command BPMUpdateFile, but I was told this is not supporte...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

To be able to tag other Blueworks users when you add a comment to a process diagram.

All users would benefit from being informed that there is a comment for their attention, because presently the comments are not always picked up by the required users immediately. This could work by allowing the commentator to tag the required Blu...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration