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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:

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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Please add flow charting symbols

We need to create System and/or Data flow diagrams. Symbols to create such flow diagrams are not available currently in the tool. Please can you add standard data flow charting symbols (input, processing, output, applications, databases, interface...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Would like support for Datacap to communicate and function w/ICCSAP on OCP

Please see case TS015518568 as a reference. We are migrating our on-prem, Websphere ND and stand-alone Linux (RHEL) environment to Openshift (OCP). We have migrated the following applications to OCP: - CPE - ICN - CMIS - TaskManager ...
8 months ago in Content Collector for SAP 0 Future consideration

Date Picker should behave the same regardless of the region or timezone assigned to the machine

Date Picker is having issues persisting and behaving consistently due to the region not being in the US.
8 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Improve documentation and context between CP4BA, foundational services and specific components

The documentation landscape between a specific cloud pak , the foundational services and the specific components are hard to follow and there are not enough links to navigate the user to the right location. e.g. Finding APIs on a certain topic is ...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Feature/Button to skip additional clicks and directly access decision tables in BAMOE Canvas

Boxed expressions in DMN (for eg - decision tables) that are used to define the underlying logic of decision nodes generally requies customer to open up the DMN file and then access the DMN decision via the "edit" option. In terms of enhancement s...
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Under review

Process Admin - Ability to search or filter snapshots in Installed Apps tabs

In BAW v23.0.2, the newly redesigned Process Admin console comes with Pagination when loading snapshots under "Installed Apps" tab which is good for performance reasons. However, in non-production environments that are shared by multiple applicati...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM Process Mining SAML/LDAP group mappings through administrative user interface

To match other IBM products and because this is a requirement for many organizations, LDAP and SAML group mapping through the product interface is essential for handling its users' authorization and permissions settings. Currently, IBM Process Min...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

"Wait Download" command could download the filename instead of generating a random name

The "Wait Download" command could use the downloaded filename instead of a random name when the parameter is empty. Currently the system behavior is to generate a random name which can cause confusion when looking for the file in the folders, spe...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

Provide a Machine Learning Provider configuration option for CP4D - Watson ML

CP4BA - ADS v22.0.2 provides the ability to integrate with a Watson ML configured / running on IBM Cloud. The authentication method for this integration relies on the API Key to retrieve a token to be able to consume a deployed service as document...
over 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

store the encrypted FileNet password into 2 locations

to store the encrypted FileNet password into 2 locations so that the hacker will not easily decrypt the password even the encryption key is being stolen
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration