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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:

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,

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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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Have a similar indicator to the comment bubble, for activities with documentation

Currently, there is no way on knowing where there is something to read inside an activity when its been placed on the documentation section. It would be helpful to have an icon like the comments bubble, or the linked process icon.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Request to add Horizonatal configuration to radio button control

for the radio button control there's need to be a configuration option for displaying the buttons in horizontal order.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow shops to control timeout process or heartbeat for ARSODF and CMOD Cloud

Currently the ARSODFC task will come down if CMOD Cloud or Network issues cause it to disconnect. We would like to set the amount of time before the disconnect occurs. Currently there are no messages other than an RC02 to indicate a "timeout" or m...
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Improve Get Text/Scraping Capabilities

We need to improve IBM RPA's scraping capabilities since there are many controls where it simply fails to extract the text, specially on Windows applications. It could be a command like the Get Visible Text from UiPath, which usually is able to ex...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Filter users on name or email address when removing them from user groups

When removing users from a user group, they are presented alphabetically by 'public' user name. To find a specific user can be very challenging as:- there is no filter capability- there are three lists, alpha sorted by license type.- users can (an...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Display Document Lifecycle Policy and State in Content Navigator

Document Lifecycle policies can be assigned to documents in FileNet. While it is possible to view Lifecycle State, policy assigned, as well as promote/demote document through ACCE, the same functionality is not available when working in ICN. At le...
almost 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

A blocklist of MIME types that cannot be uploaded.

BAW is able to configure an allowlist using the <document-attachment-accepted-mime-types> parameter. And, BAW can disable of document upload security by the <disable-document-attachment-accepted-mime-types> parameter.But, There is a lo...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Nested toolkit dependency upgrade

In multi level nesting of toolkits making a change in the leaf toolkit requires an upgrade of all dependency toolkits. The process of doing this is extremely tedious for 2 reasons:1) Each toolkit at each level needs to be opened upgraded and new s...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

DC Query for same business rule name

Customer is trying to find all business rules with list of rule names inside a certain package, however they need to also filter it by the parent folder (only validation or only computation) Find all business rules such that the name of the rule p...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Future consideration

Process portal - no calls to pfs requests when session is invalid

When you open a Process portal in the background you can see calls to PFS server. Sometimes our customer open process portal in many tabs. When the session is not longer valid the requests are still sending and always cause a errors. In the monito...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration