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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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BAW BPM - ECM Uploader component - Create unfiled document

Currently the component ECM Uploader only supports (works as design) for filed documents (folder or root folder), the idea is to expand the feature to allow in the configuration to create unfiled documents since it is supported by FileNet and CMIS...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM BPM/BAW must be compliant with tmforum provided standard openAPI.

IBM being a member of tmforum (https://www.tmforum.org/open-apis/) and many clients adopting standard set by tmforum all the product should be able to consume swagger files provided by tmforum community. However IBM BPM is not able to parse it. Pl...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

"Hover Dialog" for annotations to present real user name instead or in addition to a technical user, that is used to connect to the backend content repository

When using Daeja as part of a custom application, the "Hover Dialog" for annotations should display the real user name using the application instead or in addition to a technical user that is used by the application to connect to the content store...
5 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Future consideration

Business Automation Workflow should support Multi-value property templates of type unique

We are facing issue with the multi value property allowing duplicate values for multi value property in case client screen. We would like to have a property to provide values with unique and ordered as list in case client screen. PFA of case clien...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

ODM Helm deployments in OpenShift - related to security requirements for handling passwords and secrets.

The main issue is how passwords/secrets are managed within ODM Helm chart deployments in OpenShift. Since unencrypted passwords (i.e. cleartext) cannot be used due to your security requirements, CyberArk is being used as a credential vault to mana...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Enhancements on the recorder

The recorder will map more applications through natural utilization, and automatic component detection and will not depend on Windows drivers. Users require that because the target applications are generally automation blockers when surface automa...
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

ODM Language Translations

If there are any options available where ODM tool can return/translate the text/description in the Spanish/Chinese, etc.., used for language translation in runtime. Example: Condition/Input will be in English, Action/Output in other languages (Spa...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

"Active Processes Currently Executing" table in Process Monitor should have a filtering feature specified date and time.

The paging feature on the "Active Processes Currently Executing" in Process Monitor only allows moving from one page to the other. This becomes tedious where there are many pages of processes. There should be a feature where customers can filter a...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

REST calls via proxy

Add functionality to set up proxy for REST calls in BPMRESTRequest ()
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Speech to Text from audio files

Two use cases for audio files uploaded to or already stored in CPE: 1. User uploads an audio file into FileNet, which triggers an event to automatically generate the transcription of the audio file and adds the text document either as a new docume...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration