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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

Please add an additional enhancement for the text annotation color. We changed it to black by default, but there is no capability to change the annotation text font color.

Please add an additional enhancement for the text annotation color. We changed it to black by default, but there is no capability to change the annotation text font color.
5 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted

Support multiple ICCSAP Instances for Container deployment

The ICCSAP Deployment on Containers shall support installation of multiple ICCSAP Instances. All those ICCSAP Instances shall be managed by a single Content Navigator deployment, as this is the situation also in Non-Container On-Prem deployments c...
over 3 years ago in Content Collector for SAP 0

For each fix pack or new version of Datacap, backup, save, all configurations and registry tunes and reapply as the last install step.

Customers constantly have to waste time and resources checking and resetting the previous settings and registry tunes in Datacap after every patch or new DC version.
almost 4 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Move Wombat into IBM BPM

With the GDPR regulations now in place, IBM had to take the Wombat site down. Given that the code already exists, and that it runs in WAS, a logical and easy step would be to move this into Process Center! If Wombat came with Process Center custom...
over 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improvements when changing the level of log files

We need a more practical way to change the level of log files. It would be ideal to have an interface to change the level of the logs. Our suggestion would be a new tab on the Licenses page (https://localhost:8099/web/pt-BR/license) where the us...
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Datacap Navigator Verify - Request the ability to execute an Alternate Task Profile and submit the batch in a single step

In clients system, an additional task profile was developed that allows users to reject a batch from Datacap Navigator during the Verify step. To complete this process, the user must first click the Reject Batch button and then click Submit to fin...
5 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Business user expecting to add inline comments or block comments in rule content. Currently we have capability to add comments in Documentation section however business user cannot add comments specific to any lines and for any block.

This will help business users better understand the rule functionality and enable them to maintain a clear change log directly within the rules.
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Datacap Navigator 9.19 shortcut in Job Monitor to contain a total count of bathes for the task.

Please see example in screen print. For example: I have two shortcuts. One for "navigator scan" shortcut and one for Verify shortcut. Customer would like a total count in parentheses on "Navigator Scan" total and the same for Verify short customer
5 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 4 Under review

We wish ODM would make Decision Governance Framework as a default so that application teams can defaulted to use it rather than giving them an option.

Security compliance in our organization and they follow Decision Governance Framework can dra
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Swimlane selectable color option

With the option to select a color for each individual swimlane everyone can easily see who does what at first sight. This would improve the readability of the BPNM diagram. A good start would be to have a few predefined colors in the canvas and th...
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration