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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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Debug Breakpoints for Service Flows

When debugging a Service Flow, there is no way to set a breakpoint. For large complex flows, this means you need to go through potentially hundreds of steps to get to where you need to be, which can take a huge amount of time! Like any good develo...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

When a scheduled bot fails to run, have it create a failed job

It is not uncommon for scheduled bots to just not run. At times when it fails to run, no job will be created, and there is no indication that the scheduled job has failed since it just never ran. It could potentially be days before anyone realizes...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Process Mining: Enable re-usage of Process App for the same process in order to add more data

In the current state of the product (version 1.14.1), Process Apps can be used once to create a process in IBM Process Mining. If the use case requires adding more data later on, this is only possible by manually uploading the data as csv data set...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Delivered

Increase maximum characters value of IBM RPA credential

Currently, the IBM RPA maximum character value for a credential is 255. For example, a token which contains 450 characters makes IBM RPA unable to deal with those cases unless the token string is divided by two credentials, TokenPart1 and TokenPar...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Delivered

Add ability to upload and retrieve documents in incremental parts via the GraphQL API.

Add the ability to upload and retrieve documents via the GraphQL API in small increments (chunks). This will enable large files to be uploaded and retrieved without exceeding common timeout settings for incoming/outgoing HTTP requests/responses. T...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Delivered

IBM Content Manager 8.7 Rest Services API; Please create a method to retrieve Attribute Definitions of an Itemtype

Hello CM8 Developer Team, to build up our dynamically input mask with dynamic attribute input for each Itemtype for eventually creating asearch query, we miss an appropriate Rest Service Call to retrieve such attribute definition data. We have som...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager (CM8) 1 Delivered

OOTB "Open document in a new window" button for File Viewer component

The "File Viewer" component of the Content Management Toolkit does not provide the the out-of-the-box button/option to open the current document in a new window, and this functionality is crucial for the users. The old/deprecated component "Respon...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

Long loading waits for dashboards

Loading the dashboard takes about 5 minutes the first time with new data reload etc with no hint to user
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Delivered

Enhance product licensing/setup experience

The product licensing/setup experience is an unintuitive process with frequent issues with activating/login/account creation.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Support for AS400 terminal (TN5250)

Currently there is no terminal support for AS400 yet
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered