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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 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...
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

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When using the get next function, if the user picks the last item in the inbasket they get a message "no more work items" when the dispatch the work item

The behavior where if the last work item is picked, and it reports 'no more items' is the behavior that was inherited from the prior release and is how the in-basket current processes work. If the customer would like it to behave differently, then...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Provide access to Cloud Pak License Service Reporter Dashboards for non-administrative users

The License Reporter component of CP foundational services provide a very good overview about current and historical license consumption across deployed instances and clusters. Currently only Cloud Pak users which have the "Cluster Admin" or "Clou...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Delivered

Dynamic Filter for all the inbaskets on page load

We have implemented Dynamic Filter for all the inbaskets, on initial load only first inbasket is filtering and other for inbaskets after clicking on them they are filtering but not on initila load. Have a way to filter all the inbaksets for a spec...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Audit Trail for Process Portal and Workplace dashboards

Include audit trail for users actions on Process Portal and Workplace dashboards on BAW container and VM version. Those actions include update due date, priority, reassignment, for reassignment, both assigner and assignee info need to capture
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Use of LDAP groups for IBM Content Navigator Administrators

We currently use LDAP groups to manage permissions in all CP4BA components, but ICN only offers the ability to add user IDs as administrators, not LDAP groups. In order to have a consistent approach for managing permissions for administrators in C...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 2 Delivered

Control room password not Compliant with Clients requirements #cpfield

in WDG the control room password is limited to 6 characters.. Most clients ( including IBM ) consider a 6 chars password not secure enough as the control room oversees the bots who have passwords from coporate systems to execure their tasks
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Support ODM Rule Designer on MacOS

After upgrading to ODM 8.10.2, found out that RuleFlows and Decision Tables do not work on MacOS. So the recommended solution is to either use Decision Center or Windows VM to make changes. We would like for IBM to make the same functionality work...
almost 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Delivered

Possibility to delete Queues, Possibility to delete/update Processes

Possibility to delete processes was taged here as delivered within https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WDGRPA-I-68 . But this is not true. Only to delete Computers has been delivered. Delete obsolute processes or update variables within it is very useful ...
10 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Delivered

CMOD 10.5 Command ARSACIF Support 64bit runtime library on RHEL 8 zLinux system

Command ARSACIF within CMOD 10.5 fails running on a 64 bit RHEL zLinux system. RHEL 8 only distributes a 64 bit OS, and At this moment, building the 31 - Bit GNU GCC runtime library is the only option current available for CMOD 10.5 on RHEL 8 zLin...
over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Delivered

Debug Breakpoints for Service Flows

When debugging a Service Flow, there is no way to set a breakpoint. For large complex flows, this means you need to go through potentially hundreds of steps to get to where you need to be, which can take a huge amount of time! Like any good develo...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered