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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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create List<XX> for ODM variable set along with Array

When assigning a new variable type in a variable set, it is possible to define this variable as an Array. Would it be possible to add List as well so that the type in the variable set would be List<XX> instead of XX[]. See image below
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Add "Save All" function to Administrative Console for CPE (ACCE)

Making multiple changes to objects in ACCE is often time-consuming due to the requirement to save each object which has been updated one at a time, instead of a function for saving all pending changes at once. There are often instances where the s...
2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

Add Amazon EKS as a supported platform for running Open Editions

We would like to have support for running BAMOE components and services on EKS.
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Under review

Support for specifying a pre-existing S3 bucket for an Advanced Storage Area in the FileNet FNCM Operator and Custom Resource

When automating or otherwise creating a FileNet environment in OpenShift it is not possible to specify a pre-existing S3 bucket to use as the storage for an Advanced Storage Area, the environment must be created and then the ASA added with the S3 ...
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

Extend ARSLSYNC utility to sync more attributes/fields

Using the CMoD arslsync utility. Rabobank would like to include additional attributes/fields from the LDAP (Active Directory), e.g. a special RabobankID that is used for Audit purposes. unfortunatelly such a function is not present in arslsync. As...
2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

BAMOE Content column size on the comments Table can be increased

We are having a use where we want to add the comments to a task. I have found that can be doable in BAMOE. But I am seeing that comments that business wants to add 1000 characters. On BAMOE Comments table, I am seeing the Content column as 255. Is...
2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Under review

Ability to create Application connections on SaaS environments

For the OnPremises offer, it's possible to create/administer external connections like Outlook connections, etc. For the SaaS offer, you must use the pre-created connection that is handled by IBM. The idea is to implement the same mechanism on the...
2 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

Enable scesim files editing on Canvas

For editing scesim files using Canvas, it only supports BAMOE Developer Tools at the time. BAMOE Canvas is not supported. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibamoe/9.0.x?topic=guide-business-central However client is hoping to replace Business Central wi...
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Under review

Request for PDF to Word Document Conversion Feature in Datacap

We would like to request the addition of an action in Datacap that enables the conversion of input PDF files to Word Documents.
6 months ago in Datacap 1 Under review

Improve Entry Template loading speed by optimizing client-side validation

Optimizing the validation process will enhance the end-user experience, save time, and improve efficiency.
3 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Under review