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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:

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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,

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  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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PostgreSQL Support for CMOD MP

PostgreSQL is a database very common in customers. Currently, many clients are using this database to replace Oracle databases due to costs.
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Jobs Page - Check bots that are running or pending

I want to request the following enhancements for the Jobs page: The Jobs page should filter and display both running and pending bots (if there are any at this state at the moment) , regardless of the specific script associated with them. This wil...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to configure own S3 storage

Current version support IBM S3, AWS S3 and Azure, but it isn't possible to own S3 storage, for example MinIO or Ceph RGW S3.It will be good if you add possibility to configure endpoint at AWS tab, then it will be possible to configure own S3 storage.
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Improving Bot Project Scheduling with Custom Intervals

To enhance the flexibility of scheduling bots, I suggest adding an option to use custom intervals directly (similar to the old scheduling system). This feature would allow users to specify an interval (e.g., 36 minutes) for bot executions without ...
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide option to have a Visual indicator - for attachments and or polices links

Whenever, there are processes linked, we can see the link symbol on the activity box.However, when we have attachments or when we have linked policies or decisions, there is not Visual indicator on the activity box. Whenever there are attachments ...
almost 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

BPM Table Pagination - Add Configuration to get sequential pagination

The current stock table control is displaying the calculated pagination numbers with internal algorithm. At the moment there is no option to change it to standard pagination with sequential paging numbers. This RFE is to add a config to have conve...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Support for headers configuration for the new Bots API callback URL

The new IBM RPA Bots API callback URL does not support any normal security arrangements. It's common practice to have some basic security (API Token, Basic Authentication, Bearer Token) on the API endpoints that we would normally use as callback U...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide a containerized standalone Daeja Virtual Viewer option

Customers would like to deploy a standalone Daeja virtual viewer as a container. This software is provided as a standalone offering, as well as part of FileNet Content Manager...which in turn makes it available for BAW and ICP4BA...all of which ar...
about 3 years ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Future consideration

Ability to restrict file types when adding (uploading) documents using Entry Templates

The ability to restrict file types when attempting to add documents using Entry Templates can offer significant advantages to any organization such as below. 1) By limiting the types of files that can be uploaded, you can ensure that only relevant...
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Ability to restrict file types when adding (uploading) documents using Entry Templates.

The ability to restrict file types when attempting to add documents using Entry Templates can offer significant advantages to any organization such as below. 1) By limiting the types of files that can be uploaded, you can ensure that only relevant...
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration