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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

Datacap Navigator under verfiy screen interface does not display the full file path of the document selected for upload. Which makes it difficult to confirm the source location of the document.

Enhance the Verify UI to include the complete file path of the browsed document. This will allow users to verify the origin of the file before submitting the batch, ensuring accuracy and reducing errors caused by selecting files from incorrect dir...
9 months ago in Datacap 2 Not under consideration

Search and Replace in Documentation mode

Add the ability to search and replace text within the Documentation view while editing a blueprint. This should prompt to make changes in activities and all supporting documentation similar to a word processor. This could not be satisfied by the G...
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

SMTP username and password authentication

Case TS003547354 Currently, there is no way for IBM BAW to use SMTP server that requires username and password authentication. This applies for both process center and server.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Clean pending processes on queue

Possibility to clean pending processes on queue. We identified that in some cases the processes were not executed and remained pending. The same happened with scripts that were running and failed, generating a backlog of pending processes (even if...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future 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...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Availability of Pluggable Variable Persistence (PVP) in BAMOE 9.3 or higher

From the documentation page of BAMOE 9.3.0 we can see that Pluggable variable persistence is currently not supported [1] Are you planning to support it in future release? We are using it in our applications built on top of BAMOE 8.x When are you p...
9 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

ODM on Nutanix Hypervisor

Several ISA customers have deployed or planning to deploy traditional ODM on the Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor(AHV) due to cost advantages over VMware. While these deployments function as expected, customers are encountering support challenges when...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Functionality already exists

Business Object usage in Navigator

The backend (FileNet CE) allows the definition of custom objects that can be added as multivalued properties on a document class. However, this kind of document properties is not supported by ICN. The support of this custom object properties must ...
over 4 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

Powerpoint export header to be made customized.

We are getting the below options to customise;1. Customisation of email Notifications 2. Customisation of Logo and colour scheme 3. Customisation of custom logo on the word export's header and footer However, we are NOT getting the option to ;4. C...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Enhancement Request - Enable Bulk Retrieval with CMOD REST API

CMOD REST API has capability to retrieve one document (docID) at a time, can it be enhanced to enable multiple doc retrievals like with arsdoc get?
9 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review