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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

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OCR engine is not picking up special characters such as umlaut or tilde.

Customers would like the OCR A or OCR S engine to be able to recognize umlauts for pronunciation and tilde. Example: Ä – make the sound “eh” or “ê” without gliding into the sound “ey”; Ö – make the sound “ê” and purse your lips into an O shape; Ü ...
6 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 4 Functionality already exists

Support for bulk import of Java classes using "Import Java Classes" option in BAMOE 9.

Having a lot of Java classes (in thousands) available dependencies for DMN requires importing each class indiviually using "Import Java Classes" option.
6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Under review

Improve inter-pod communication stability during consistent heavy load

Under consistent heavy load, Socket Timeout exceptions are observed coming from BAstudio and CPE pods.
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 4 Is a defect

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...
almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Instance dates in PFS Portal

If you want to migrate Saved Searches from BAW to PFS and the SS uses date fields from instance, you cannot migrate the saved searches. Some of the fields that are usable out of the box in BAW saved searches are not usable as is in PFS saved searc...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

zRES logging behaviour - integration with z/OS Console

Hi all, ODM must be highly available (no outages allowed) and we must be able to react on very short notice (real-time) if a problem occurs. If ODM is not responding for whatever reason, all transactions will be blocked/cannot be executed. Current...
about 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Want the table of contents (index) of PDF documents to display in the left panel rather than a list of page numbers

When you open a PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader, the left panel acts as an index to the content in the document....you can click on any of the items and it then displays the appropriate page in the viewer. When you open the PDF in the Daeja Viewer, yo...
12 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 1 Future consideration

When trying to add an extra column, if the exposed variables are exposed in different process, then the way it shows in workplace has too much data.

It works 'as designed' but that does not necessarily mean it is best for user experience. BAW User is using CP4A with the case feature. Their case type has multiple activities, each activity has at least one human service task. It has an exposed b...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

It is recommended to set the default "document class" when uploading through "document Explorer"

When uploading documents in case activities (BPM), users need to select "document class", which is inconvenient. In particular, if the user does not select the correct "document class", the subsequent process will fail to achieve the expected goal...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Planned for future release

ICC4SAP Load Balancing using https on Azure (and other clouds)

Qualify and test Azure (and other clouds: IBM, AWS) load balancing using https and offer ICC4SAP product support
12 months ago in Content Collector for SAP 2 Not under consideration