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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

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Multiple Administrator Groups

Currently, all users present in tw_admin groups have access to all features on Process Admin Console. Segregated/restricted rights to be assigned to admin user for each application. 1. Administrator of workflow app 1 should not be able to access w...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Cross repository search (CRS) does not currently support property/attribute groups like regular search does.

Currently, when Client is trying to build a Cross Repository Search Template, but when they choose to exclude all condition for String property, he is unable to get documents which has blank values in search results.
4 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Alphabetization in ONLY SOME of the dropdown lists, which can have a huge list of variables

Some filters go by execution but with a long and vast list of process steps or attributes it makes it impossible to type ahead and search for specific action. Also when editing a filter the type ahead is disabled
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Future consideration

Allow securing IBM Automation Foundation Kafka routes by customer-provided certificates

Customer is on 21.0.3 version and soon planning to upgrade to 24.0.0 version , in this case IAF will be replaced by CPfs. Need to check if asked problem will be resolved or not after upgrade ? ................................... Customer is using ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

IBM Content Navigator - WYSIWYG Mail Editor in IBM Content Navigator

The mail editor in ICN supports only plain text, but MTU Aero Engines AG as customer needs WYSIWYG functionality. A function frequently used by all users and end customers is sending emails directly from ICN. Unfortunately, the mail client in ICN ...
almost 3 years ago in Content Navigator 22 Future consideration

Add Hierarchical BOM View to New Action Editor Like Existed in Old Editor

Please add the hierarchical view of the BOM that shows each object and each attribute that can be selected for each object to the new editors similar to what existed in the old editors.
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Readiness for KIE Server that includes DB readiness

KIE uses a persistence to store the latest state of the process instances etc. When a wrong configuration is provided for DB, KIE becomes ready but healthcheck return 503. As this scenario happens inside Kubernetes cluster, previous serving KIE PO...
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Under review

Include full path for "breadcrumb" navigation links on process view, including all spaces and subspaces

When viewing a process, the "breadcrumb" navigation shows the space and process name. If the space is a subspace, then to navigate to a parent space, you must click and navigate up multiple times to get to a parent space. Current process view brea...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

convert multi-value property from default system table to its own table

this is a feature to persist multi-value property to its own table https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/filenet-p8-platform/5.5.x?topic=icped-persisting-multi-valued-properties-in-their-own-database-table However, for existing multi-value property, current...
9 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Log the query that was performed by the bot in any SQL command error

We build queries in ibm rpa by concatenating ibm rpa variables with pre-build int queries. Sometimes those variables may have incorrect values, and the query will fail. The problem is, IBM RPA will not log query in most cases, and when it does, it...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration