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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 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

All ideas

Filter and sort variables in Studio by input/output parameters

In IBM RPA Studio, there should be an option to filter/sort the Variables window in order to quickly and clearly identify a script's input and output parameters. Currently, the Variables window can only be sorted by variable Type. Adding the input...
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

AWS S3 Bucket with Object Lock and in Compliance Mode connected as a Fixed Content Device Storage to CPE, map CPE Indefinite Retention to AWS S3 Legal Hold Flag

Currently indefinite is not allowed or supported from CPE to AWS S3, the CPE value of 9999-12-20 12AM UTC is sent to S3 and S3 complains that the date value is not allowed as S3 has a maximum value of 100 years in the future for retention date. In...
almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Filenet on Nutanix Hypervisor

Several ISA customers have deployed or planning to deploy traditional FileNet components on the Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor(AHV) due to cost advantages over VMware . While these deployments function as expected, customers are encountering support...
over 1 year ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Under review

I want to archive process instances so to allow me to keep the instances while deleting the snapshots

This is useful because I want to keep the instances associated with the snapshot without deleting the snapshots This is something that's coming up with Customers from Middle East where there's a regulatory requirement with some banks to keep the d...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 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.
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Planned for future release

AI Enhancements - Indicate duplicate maps or where maps could link/connect to each other

AI Enhancements - Indicate duplicate maps or where maps could link/connect to each other
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Rediscovery of a Web service should be possible if the location of the Web service changed (e.g., its URL or file location)

There has been a change at VKB that now requires each service being called through an NGINX reverse proxy. That change implied that the location changed from where WSDLs for Web Services are obtained: BAW should now rediscover all services via the...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Support for MongoDB

Currently BAMOE 9 does not support non-SQL db such as Mongo DB, and wondering if we can have support for this
8 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Under review

Execution via runtime with total admin privileges (runtime)

Essa ideia surgiu a cerca de 1 ano, mediante a necessidade de que nos deparamos com nossos clientes em que um programa, usando por um robô, é executado em seu processo somente com os privilégios total ativado(Modo Administrador). Em testes com a e...
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Avoid accidental disabling of Process Engine Workflow System

At a customer environment, an administrator had accidentally disabled the Process Engine Workflow system in ACCE. Enabling / Disabling Workflow System, and Enabling / Disabling Workflow System Traces are on the same dialog, at the same location, j...
11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted