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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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Ability to restrict documents download for specific users/groups.

Ability to restrict documents download for specific users/groups. One of the customer Exxon Mobil had a requirement that some of the documents restrict to download from the application through user/group permissions
9 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Governance: Only one single notification is send for trigger via Governance app, incase of no action by users. There is no option to send reminder notification or escalation.

Multiple reminders and escalation to be triggered incase of no action being taken for open process app tasks.
9 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Governance: Process App reporting option to be created & user with edit rights to space should have visibility to task and reports for assigned space.

Governance: Process App reporting option to be created & user with edit rights to space should have visibility to task and reports for assigned space.
9 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Governance: Launching of customized app into respective spaces only and not into subspace.

Currently, customized apps are launched into all the sub workspaces within a space. This to be curtailed to that specific space only and option to be provided to Admin & user with workspace edit rights if the app has to be implemented for a pa...
9 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Governance: Default option to be 'None' for Governance under Customization used by Admin.

Currently, the governance feature is default launched for all workspaces within BWL. Instead default option should be none and have a selective selection of workspace for Governance launch by Admin on users with workspace edit rights.
9 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Excel Add-Ons will be loaded when using RPA command

Client is requesting that Excel Add-Ons be loaded when using the officeOpen RPA command by having an option to turn them one under the command settings. Add ons are currently not loaded with using the officeOpen RPA command.
3 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

Add a timeout to "cancel" test suite execution that runs for too long

When you run a huge test suite, the execution can last for several mins, sometime more than 1h if you have put too much scenarios in it. The idea would be to allow for the user to set a specific timeout (testsuite_maxtime or something like that) a...
10 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

JBoss EAP 8 support for BAMOE 8.0.x

As part of security vulnerability customer is planning to upgrade JBoss EAP from 7.4.14 to 8.0.2.1. They are running BAMOE 8.0.2 and request adding support for JBoss EAP 8.x in a future release.
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Under review

Add Spring Boot 3 as a supported runtime for business services

We would like to use spring boot 3 as the runtime for the process and decision services.
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 2 Planned for future release

API Access for RPA Robot Scheduling and Execution Data Outside the Tenant

Enable API access to the scheduling and execution data of RPA robots, currently available only on internal tenant or when using the dashboard. This API would allow users to build custom, external dashboards, for example, to display on corporate mo...
22 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Submitted