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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 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...
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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Request a configurable option to disable drag-and-drop in ICN.

Request to add a configurable option to disable the drag-and-drop feature in ICN. This is intended to prevent business users from unintentionally moving folders.
11 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

The IBM Content Navigator EDS plugin is designed to replace the CPE choice list

In the ICN edsPlugin code, udpatedChoiceList is only set to true if the json response has a choiceList property. It does not check the json response for the "udpatedChoiceList" attribute so that part of the response the service is ignored. The sol...
12 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Decision Center: Warnings after Excel-upload for decision table / clearer showing of errors in a decision table

We have big decision tables(over 1000 rows) in our services which have 11condition columns and a action column with three fields. These tables are often updated by the business users with the help of excel sheets. After uploading an excel sheet wh...
12 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 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 month 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 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

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 Future consideration

Provide a containerized image of Content Manager OnDemand

The page Building and deploying Content Manager OnDemand in a Docker container (ibm.com) explains how to set up, configure and run a standard version of CMOD in a Docker container. It would be more useful that IBM provides a cloud ready version of...
2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Under review

Link to Case: documents(FileNet/CMOD) attached to case must have On Hold symbol/icon

Currently it is confusing if attached/Link documents are not having On Hold symbol. Client as Well IBM will benefit. When user link FileNet/CMOD documents to the case, that documents must show the On Hold icon/symbol against each document. Current...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 8 Not under consideration

Enhance the logging output for GraphQL client to include the response as well as the request in the logs.

Enhancing the logging of the GraphQL client to include the response will help trouble shoot issues related to requests. At this time a request can fail but there is no response output to determine why it failed. Development teams working with the ...
12 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Ability to customize LogoutRequest xml for SSO (Public)

Some Identity Providers may not be able to handle Logout requests when used as SSO for IBM Process Mining. The idea is to have the ability to customize the LogoutRequest xml generated by the application to ensure that logouts are properly handled.
about 1 month ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Planned for future release