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
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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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All ideas

    High priority tasks/instances should appear on top always in process portal

    There is a business requirement where High priority tasks/instances should appear on top always in work - process portal. Even if it's under saved searches it must always appear on top as soon as portal opens without any mouse click. On Page /Portal.
    6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

    Provide a new tool for Building, Creating and maintaining the Custom Query table

    We have several BPEL Processes in which we implemented the standard functionality of the query tables. We always used the procedure described in the documentation of the IBM Business Automation Workflow and before for BPM and WPS: Creating query t...
    about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Future consideration

    Option to disable 'ADVANCED COMPRESSION' on Case History store level even though the capaibility is available on Oracle DB server level.

    Case History store automatically use function 'ADVANCED COMPRESSION' when it is available (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1097385). If the Case History store is configured to use an Oracle database and the Oracle server has ADVANCED compre...
    over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Enabling Stage names translation in Case Client of IBM BAW

    Localizing the stages name into a different locale (for eg, Arabic) is currently not possible in IBM BAW. Even tying to localize the stage names using custom string approach ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/24.x?topic=applications-translating-cus...
    almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Is a defect

    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

    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.
    over 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

    Enhancement "external integration" to Snowflake, S3, SAP etc

    Many customers are seeking external integration in RPA. External integration means having execution invocation, execution result, error handling and termination as components, etc. We need to see the external integration to S3, Snowflake, SAP etc...
    about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Support for POSTGRESQL

    We currently deploy CMOD on AIX and do not have the ability to use POSTGRESQL as database. POSTGRESQL is our db of choice moving forward.
    10 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

    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...
    over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    API endpoint to list executed bots

    IBM RPA uses API endpoints to call Bots outside of Control Center context, like an external application. Customer suggested having an API endpoint to check for the history of bot executions to understand whether an instance has been executed or no...
    over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

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