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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 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

Showing 2150 of 2150

BOM and Domain Spreadsheet Mapping is Positional

We have attached a doc file explaining in detail with the screenshots.
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Increase Spring Boot version support in v8

Hi, Nowadays the last version of Spring Boot that can be used with Bamoe 8.X is Spring Boot 2.5.X A version of Spring Boot without any support. https://endoflife.date/spring-boot I think it will be great to use last releases of Spring Boot (3.X an...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 3 Not under consideration

As a user I want to automatically filter the In-basket based on the Logged in Users "Profit Center"

("Profit center" represent the logged-in user’s organization belonging/or branch office location for the logged in user). An Idea of solution: The logged in User (Profile) in Case Client should be able to add(configure) on one or more strings for ...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Set LTPA token, HTTP session and EJB timeout for each ProcessApps

There are 3 factors that cause users to timeout on the Process Portal. LTPA token, HTTP session and EJB timeouts These cannot be set for each ProcessApp in the BAW. However, in some cases, only certain ProcessApps may not want to set these timeout...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Attach to runtime - Validate if the connection is from localhost or external

The IBM RPA should check if the connection between the client and the client running the schedule is local (127.0.0.1) or is being connected by an external address. If the connection is a localhost (127.0.0.1) , the schedule needs to work fine. ...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Is a defect

Add Merge & Split action on Document Widget from Case Client

From the document widget in the case client, the business user can't make a merge and split on a document because the action in the context menu is not implemented. This function is available in the "browse" section.
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

Create additional parameters in ars.cfg to be used specific for ARSLSYNC to separate them from normal LDAP config instead of being shared parameters for both LDAP & ARSLSYNC

Create additional parameters in ars.cfg to be used specific for ARSLSYNC to separate them from normal LDAP config instead of being shared parameters for both LDAP & ARSLSYNC Summary Currently the LDAP Parameters configured in ars.cfg locally o...
6 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add Watermark to process model used to indicate "Draft" or other Admin defined flag

We currently have models that are not complete but need to be Published so Viewers can review them. There is a danger of Viewers searching for models and assuming they're final or current state. Having the ability to turn on a Watermark to display...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Datacap Navigator - Batch list with datacap security applied

In Datacap Navigator, when a data controller user accesses the job monitor, it sees all the batches of one Datacap application (including the batches belonging to the other offices). The user should see only batches which he has access, as configu...
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Export WebSphere Application Server Network Deployed Configurations to Container YAML

Converting on premise WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Network Deployed (ND) configurations to Kubernetes supported container platform YAML requires manual collection of configurations like Data Sources, Name Spaces, Connection Factories, Enviro...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration