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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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Message ARS0081I should include AG fields that are set to be 'Logged'

Customers want to see field information in messages that show document information when documents are retrieved or printed
4 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

In case of an auth time-out, ensure the user redirects to decision center after successfully re-authenticating

Currently, when a user was working in Decision Center but left it untouched for a while, the user's authentication can time out. When the user wants to proceed, the user will get redirected to authenticate again on the login page which is good. Wh...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

“Critical” Flagging option within Property Field

Currently there is no option to flag Critical values within Property Fields Currently the resolution is to update 2 Property Fields. 1 for Critical values and 1 for Non-Critical values. This is creating double work to populate in 2 different field...
9 months ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Control how the IBM Content Navigator viewer properties panel is displayed

The customer would like to be able to control if the properties panel is displayed by default when the viewer is opened and edit the default size for the properties panel.
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

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

Align BAW, BAN and CPE supported mime types

Hi, to upload an Office document into a Document list from a Human service, we have to update the configuration (see link below). A complete mime types definition list exists in FileNet Engine, there's also a mime types definition list in Business...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under 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

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

Advanced Search Features

Enhance the search abilities within BwL by adding advanced features such as:• Define search area: o Only current workspace o Include sub-workspaces• Search within: o Blueprint name o Within blueprint o Activities o Description Text o Labels o etc....
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Content Collector should support current versions of WAS Liberty and document steps to update

IBM Content Collector for Email (ICC) comes with bundled Liberty for ICC web applications. According to SCPR, for ICC 4.0.1.15 only Liberty 20.0.0.6 is supported, no following versions. 4.1.0.15IF2 delivers update to a Liberty 22.0.0.10 version. S...
4 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Future consideration