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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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Allow multiple users to be selected at one time to archive

To manage our licenses I archive users who haven't used BWL in one year or more. That means selecting many users monthly to archive. It would be a significant time savings if I could select multiple users to archive at one time.
14 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Enable "Attach to Schedule" for Bot Project Schedules

Currently, the "Attach to Schedule" feature only works with legacy script schedules and cannot connect to schedules created in Bot Projects. This forces users to manually use "Attach to Runtime" after bots start running, making debugging less effi...
14 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Make log available in test report

You can log prints in the rules. Simplest form is to use the system glossary's print statement. We have also developed and built log statements. These give valuable information about processing, and are also used extensively when developing and de...
15 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Support ICN check-in and check-out with ICCSAP

I would like ICN(IBM Content Navigator) check-in and check-out functions to be supported in ICCSAP(Content Collector for SAP Applications). When "Use IBM Content Navigator" is unchecked in the ICCSAP logical archive settings, if a document archive...
16 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Fully enable BAW in the CP4BA to exploit EntraID

The CloudPak foundational services includes support for integration with EntraID, which allows for EntraID-integrated support of most of the BAW components. However, there are several documented known limitations here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/...
16 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Enable Multiple CPD Routes

This is a feature request to enable multple CPD routes. For example, we want the option to have a custom route that is used by the F5 Load Balancer and the other would be used to directly access the environment outside the F5 Load Balancer.
20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

New API spec for CyberStrong Connector

Onboard CyberStrong connector with possible backward compatibility for the newly provided API spec.
21 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Submitted

Allow user to select scan profile from a drop-down list rather than clicking the configure button

In the default scan panel, allow the user to select a pre-configured scan settings profile from a drop-down list. Currently you have to click the configure button which pops up the scanner's interface. This allows the user to make any kind of chan...
21 days ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

content assist feature for image pdf, jpeg and tiff documents

content assist feature for image pdf, jpeg and tiff documents
28 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Reserve capacity for specefic projects

Implementing capacity reservation for specific projects in RPA would offer improved resource allocation, improved scalability. This could also help organization optimize their RPA deplyments.
28 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted