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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 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...

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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

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

How to automatically retrieve team/user/group permissions and authority that are defined individually for each Process App as a list in a batch.

Right now, the configuration is visually checked for each Process App (snapshot) from Designer, which makes it difficult to make simple comparisons and prone to errors.For example, we would like a way to automatically extract settings and permissi...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

WebSphere liberty support for IBM Content Navigator on AWS EC2

Our organization is migrating on-premise Content Manager to AWS cloud. We use Content Navigator along with Content Manager. As per official documentation for IBM Content Navigator 3.0.11, "WebSphere Liberty is not supported with the traditional IB...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

GITLAB integration

Could we please have integration set withup between ODM and gitlab so that we can manage the ODM assets from Git. Seem this is currently available in Automation Decision Services - can this please be extended to ODM as well.
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

IBM Task Mining downloadable from the Web Console

Currently, Task Mining Agent is only downloadable from the Passport Advantage website. For SaaS offerings and to match other IBM Products, users could quickly obtain the Task Mining Agent by downloading it from the TM/PM web console. The abovement...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0

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

Ability to print HTML files using Daeja Print service

Customer was using the print applet to print files but now switched to Daeja HTML service to print files. They have a lot of html files which they were able to print with the print applet and no longer able to do so with the Daeja HTML print servi...
about 1 year ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 1 Future consideration

Enhance Rule project compatibilities with dependant Maven nature XOM projects

When creating a XOM project derived from Maven, then a Rule project using that XOM in Rule Designer, the xom-libraries xom does not contain XOM project resources. It is actually a problem as resources might be needed at runtime when executing the ...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Fixed Content Device Staging using Database Storage Location

With the move to containerization we are finding that support of and implementation of NFS or other mounted file systems like Network Attached Storage (NAS) or Storage Attached Network (SAN) are no longer acceptable. We have requirements however f...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration