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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 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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The possibility of deleting disable schedules

In the WebClient, a user could delete disabled schedules, because why keep a really old and obsolete schedule, if he can delete, will be good to make the client leaner.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Migrate from MSMQ to IBM MQ system queue provider in IBM RPA

In situations where MSMQ does not fit the organizational needs in terms of package availability or network complexity, there's the need to use IBM MQ as the IBM RPA system queue provider to work with schedules and processes. Currently, this operat...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

ODWEK: Consolidate folder search calls

ODWEK makes individual search calls to CMOD for each Application Group in a folder instead of submitting a single request that is fulfilled on the server side. For example. if I execute a search against "Folder 1" and "Folder 1" contains 10 Applic...
about 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

ODWek: Duplicate ODServer objects

ODServer initialization is an expensive operation. ODFolder initialization from that ODServer is also expensive. However, connection pooling is a recommended best practice when utilizing ODWek. What if we could initialize a single/few ODServer obj...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 4 Not under consideration

Scrolling within a dialog

If a bot needs user input, a message dialog will usually be used allowing the user to enter the required information. However, it's not possible to scroll up and down within such a dialog. Especially, when providing more than just one row or one s...
8 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Additional Credential Data

Credential management is more than user and password. This idea is to enhance credential management with additional fields/features Possibility to disregard username. For tokens, etc where only the password applies Add Expiration Date Field Add St...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

ODM Container - Addition of Kerberos configuration to IBM Helm chart for Oracle Database connectivity

Hi, Our Oracle Database is fully kerberized and we need Kerberos authentication to be added to ODM version 8.11.1.0 and Helm - 22.2.0 For configuring kerberos, we need to pass the following file which are available in our organization: krb_config:...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Integrate Open telemetry into BAW

Proactively Monitor BAW Server as per their business requirement
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Provide Revision History Feature in WebPD

This feature is available in Desktop PD but not available in WebPD. This can be very essential for the developers to see the change history and revert back the code to any prior change point.
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Simplify searching an individual Application Group

Searching today follows one of three paths: Based on ODCriteria values Based on SQL Based on an ODNamedQuery The only provision in ODWek to allow restricting searches to a given Application Group is via ODFolder.setApplGroupForSearchWithSQL(). My ...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Not under consideration