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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

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FNCM Standalone on Containers should allow to describute Index Areas to separate PVs

Operating a multi-tenant FNCM environment on containers, client found issues with the PV on which CSS Index Areas are stored immediately affected indexing and search of all Business Units / Tenants attached. Being able to separate CSS Index Areas ...
4 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Integration of Cloud Pak for Business Automation with knowMore

BPCE, among many customers, uses K-now - Knowmore product (https://www.knowmore365.com/en/solutions/k-now/) that offers real-time contextual guidance for easy digital adoption and enhanced user experience on their applications. This REF is a reque...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Streaming of WAV files in Content Navigator

We need the ability to stream WAV audio files in Content Navigator. These files are stored in FileNet and can be downloaded through Content Navigator. However other audio formats can be streamed through the viewer. Having WAV files also available ...
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Function to merge multiple graphs into a single graph

Measurements/SERVICETIME based on multiple criteria are calculated from the same activity.In this case, a graph can be generated for each SERVICETIME / measurement (start time and end time).We would like the function to integrate multiple generate...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Datacap Navigator should "filter by group" as Datacap Web Client do

Our users works in many differents Business Units so we want them to see only batches for their Business Units.We found that the user's filters are not a good solution.
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Open a tab like in Navigator

It is not possible to reproduce the behavior of content navigator when a case is opened, a new tab is opened with the case informations. It is not possible to have the same behavior in a view, meaning when the user clicks on a link, a new tab will...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Native scripting for the OnDemand Client

Please add native scripting for the CMOD OnDemand client. Other clients (Such as DocumentDirect for ViewDirect) have had this functionality for decades. The OLE and DDE APIs in the 10.5 version of the client are antiquated and difficult to program...
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

hCaptcha command

Several websites are migrating from recaptcha to hcaptcha and we don't have a command that supports this feature.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Change position of start events

In case a process flow contains more than one start event within ONE swim lane, it would be useful if the position of each start event could be changed vertically (NOT horizontal). This would reduce crossing flow lines and make process models more...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Please include folder manipulation in the FTP commands

It is currently not possible to create or delete folders with the IBM RPA FTP commands and this is something very basic that other tools like Automation Anywhere v11 have. When we are working with a file server, the need to manipulate folders is e...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration