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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,

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  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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Add SharePoint Support to Cloud based storage options

SharePoint allows managing files, and content collaboration for teams and organization across Microsoft 365. This product integration support is for future and existing RPA customer, who would like to use RPA to streamline their business operation...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

ODM support for Akeyless external vault

The customer's security team requires credentials to be stored in an external vault, they have standardized on the Akeyless product. Customer previously used Hashicorp Vault but are no longer using that product. The request is to not have credenti...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Finding toolkit references/usage in Process Application

We have several Process Applications in our environment with > 15 toolkit dependencies. When we want to upgrade or remove any unneeded toolkit dependencies, there is no efficient way to check whether a process application is referencing or usin...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

RACI Functionality in Blueworks Live

Blueworks Live is being used for process mapping at my company, but we are starting to use it for our RACI matrixes. I am requesting functionality enhancements to Blueworks Live that will make creating RACI matrixes easier. I am currently using th...
almost 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Request For the WCAG 2.1 accessibility support for BAW , expecially the ‘out the box’ BAW coaches for example the Portal page

Hi BAW Product Dev. Team,Hope you are doing well Our key account - banking customer, have recently been conducting accessibly testing on the UI.They are testing against the WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards.They found that a small number of the ‘ou...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Blueworks Live reporting

An excel export of a space which includes the attributes of a process as well as attributes of an activity into a single sheet would give organizations visibility into their processes and also help with the reporting. We are a retail organization ...
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

CMIS + OAUTH - Local Signature Verification

Background The way OAUTH was delivered in CMIS was... 1. User logs into identify provider and user receives a token 2. User passes that token to CMIS 3. CMIS reaches out to the identity provider and asks if the token is valid The enhancement my or...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Functionality already exists

Perform action when tabbing out of field in Datacap Navigator.

In the thick client, when the user leaves certain fields, it performs a lookup to an Oracle database to populate other fields. This is achieved using the fieldname.LostFocus event. I'm not sure if there is an equivalent to the LostFocus event in t...
over 1 year ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Export/import of project security details of a decision service as Decision Center REST API

Applying project security of a decision service through automation can be achieved by having this feature as OOTB API. This will help in reducing manual work of applying project security via Administration tab every time new decision service is cr...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

OCR engine is not picking up special characters such as umlaut or tilde.

Customers would like the OCR A or OCR S engine to be able to recognize umlauts for pronunciation and tilde. Example: Ä – make the sound “eh” or “ê” without gliding into the sound “ey”; Ö – make the sound “ê” and purse your lips into an O shape; Ü ...
3 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 3 Under review