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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...

All ideas

Support for Mac as an RPA client

Currently, RPA clients only support Windows, Since many business users use Mac(iOS), supporting Mac will provide more opportunities for use.
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

case-sensitive database support in IBM BAMOE

Requesting case-sensitive database support for both the versions, i.e., 8.0.5 and 9.2.1. We are currently using version 8.0.5 with SQL Server, and need the database to be case sensitivity enabled.

Remove reliance on WAS 8.5.5

Many customers in the public space are mandated to use current versions of products. WAS is currently at version 9, but BAW requires WAS 8.5.5 creating a technical roadblock that requires a policy waiver and special attention by the security team.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Functionality already exists

Check status that are "Running" or "Cancelling"

If there are any problems with the communication between the client and the Server, you may have problems when a bot is running or canceling an instance of a process. The bot will get stuck with these statuses and will not be changed. A good idea ...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Is a defect

Request for Unified Timezone Configuration Across ALL CP4BA Components

Dear IBM/CP4BA Team, We would like to request a unified approach for configuring timezone settings across all CP4BA components. Currently, timezone configuration must be managed individually for each component through jvm_customize_options (for ex...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Request to Enhance Logging Parameters Documentation and Feature Support

Dear IBM/FNCM Team, The current documentation for Logging Parameters only references a limited set of configuration options. However, there is a requirement to support integration with Elasticsearch using additional authentication mechanisms such ...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Derived property - precalculated transient property

It should be possible to define a transient property in the datamodel which value is calculated (using Java/JS) whenever it is read. (either via query, via fetch instance, ...) Partially it can be implemented using "custom search function", but it...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Provide notification before LTPA token expires

Our Process Servers have been upgraded to BAW 20002. At this release, when the LTPA token expires, users are logged out without notice. In some cases end users have lost information entered into data fields.
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Would like support for CPE/ICN/etc. on Openshift to communicate and function w/ICCSAP on stand-alone/on-prem RedHat

Please see case TS015518568 as a reference. We are migrating our on-prem, Websphere ND and stand-alone Linux (RHEL) environment to Openshift (OCP). We have migrated the following applications to OCP: - CPE - ICN - CMIS - TaskManager ...
over 2 years ago in Content Collector for SAP 0 Future consideration

DATACAP - ICN - DatePicker should keep its value even if a Data Preparation Task Profile is executed.

It could be great that, on a scan panel, the date picker keeps its value (the current day) when any Data Preparation Task Profile is executed.At the moment, the Date Picker looses its data as soon as a Data Preparation Task Profile is executed so ...
over 1 year ago in Datacap 1 Needs more information