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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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Need IBM content manager V8.7 be integrated with IBM content Assistant to support AI in document's content

We are using IBM content manager V8.7.0 on our developed applications Using CM APIs. Our business needs to use AI on searching on the document's contents and ask questions. I found a product call content assistant they said it is working with IBM ...
4 months ago in Content Manager (CM8) 1 Under review

DATACAP - Suggestions in ICN search

It would be really cool that we can filter the job monitor by the "task start" column using a variable for the current day, instead of type the date.
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Under review

Coach view ECMFolderList doesn't permit to filter the CMIS content

Workflow Capability permit to work with ECM servers through the usage of the CMIS protocol. We are building a CSHS interface that uses the coach view ECMFolderList. Since our ECM is FileNet, we decided to hide some folder implementing the isHidden...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

Business Automation Insights for orchestrate

We are considering using orchestrate as a means to perform simple back-office tasks, we would need to be able to monitor from a service perspective the processes performed in orchestrate - number of proceses, types (per business function), number ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Provide documentation on release containers images

Helps customer plan ahead for release upgrades. Customer is asking for official documentation on each upcoming release that lists container images files names/digests, sizes, and versions without requiring customer to download images from the icr....
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Allow Unfiled Documents in IBM CMIS 1.0

We are forced to downgrade from CMIS 1.1 to 1.0 in order to avoid using the Apache OpenCMIS which has been sunsetted by Apache. Almost all of our documents are currently uploaded without adding them to a folder. This is not supported by CMIS 1.0 a...
10 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Under review

AI Enhancements - Process Classification Framework connection and guidance

AI Enhancements - Process Classification Framework connection and guidance, where our process maps fit into the framework we have in place
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 5 Under review

Request for New Action: ex_login_O365_OAuth_Graph_ClientSecret for Passwordless O365 Authentication via Graph API to be used in combination with the ex_SetProxy or ex_SetProxy_FullURL

Currently, Datacap's EWS action library lacks support for passwordless login to Office 365 using modern authentication. With Microsoft discontinuing EWS support, existing login actions are no longer viable. Additionally, there is no Graph API-base...
6 months ago in Datacap 0 Under review

Configurable option for Datacap Application Deployment Tool (DCDexployment.exe) to stop the Taskmaster during deployment

As per below documentation, End-to-end remote deployment on Datacap Taskmaster Server, Rulerunner, and Datacap Web Services web servers includes starting and stopping the servers. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/datacap/9.1.9?topic=administering-datac...
11 months ago in Datacap 1 Under review

Configurable option in the Datacap Application Manager for record keeping

Datacap statistics - When you process documents, Datacap tasks gather statistics that are related to each batch job and saves them in the Engine database of the application.This should be a configurable option in the Datacap Application Manager wh...
12 months ago in Datacap 0 Under review