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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:

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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...

All ideas

Shortcut to delete all unused objects

To start new projects, we often start by copying another script, leaving many variables, routines or assets without any reference in the development, also because sometimes we forget to delete it, anyway. Given this, it would be very productive...
about 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

In WorkflowCentre, there is a requirement where process instance variables need to be updated based on events sent from external services.

Requirement where process instance variables need to be updated based on events sent from external services. For this, the event subprocess functionality can be used. However, when using Event subprocesses, the correlation variable picks up the va...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

When customer is adding an annotation, it automatically defaults to bold font. Can we have a setting to change that default behavior and not have it default to bold.

This would be useful for all users as they would not have to change the font from bold. This takes time when processing 100 documents a day.
5 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted

Users should have the ability to copy, cut, and paste an annotation

Enables users to work faster and complete more documents in a day.
5 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted

When customer clicks on an annotation the cursor does not go to the location that is clicked and the user needs to toggle to the correct position which takes time and lowers the users output for the day.

When there is a large annotation, it takes a long time to move the cursor to the exact position that I need. It would save a lot of time to click on a specific location and have the cursor in that exact position.
5 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted

Customer clicks on a text box to add an annotation. Once the annotation is saved the box around the annotation is still visible. Customer does not want to see the box, just the annotation.

This would be useful for customers that want a clean annotation that they want to send to customers.
5 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted

Implementation of a systemic lock and observability in rule approval.

Implementation of a systemic lock with dual control for rule approval, ensuring that the creation, modification, or deletion of parameterized rules in the ODM engine is reviewed. Ensuring that rules were reviewed and tested before implementing pro...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Not under consideration

Allowing Custom Cache Expiry Settings for CMIS in BAW

Currently, the cache timeout for CMIS object type hierarchies in IBM BAW is hardcoded (1 hour in internal CMIS). This leads to significant delays (3.5–4 minutes) when the cache expires and is regenerated—especially in solutions with a large number...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Need a logout API for all components of CP4BA to programatically logoff a given user.

Customer is using IBM Verify for Authentication and Authorization. They are using SSO. They need to provide a global logout option, when the user clicks on this global logout, the user should be logged off from all the applications, including all ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 8 Not under consideration

Show number of instances on a subprocess without having to drill down in Process Performance Diagram tab

Use case: When business users want to see the status and number of instances active for each subprocess at the top level The Process Portal Process Performance diagram tab shows the number of active instances for each activity in the Process App. ...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration