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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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IBM Content Navigator (ICN) for MS Office (NMO) Outlook-Addin adds the wrong MIME-type for an email

When uploading an e-mail to ICN using NMO in MS Office, the MIME-type property of the resulting document in FileNet is set to 'application/x-filenet-filetype-msg'. However, when adding an email in the ICN desktop, the file has the correct mimetype...
7 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Reclaiming focus of window after losing it

During the runtime of the bots, sporadic dialog windows from various software, such as Windows update notifications, appear. These windows take focus, causing the bot to stop working and encounter an error. Therefore, it is necessary for the bot t...
7 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

User-control allowing the blocking of deletion of reports

For audit purposes, we need some kind of user-control, such as a new parameter, allowing the blocking of the deletion of reports We are required to maintain a read-only, non-delete copy of the deployment reports for 13 months for regulatory purpos...
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Future 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

Kirk Clarke

While the Participant of multiple activities can be updated but selecting and moving to a new swimlane, updating other details can only done per individual activity. This is time consuming, repetitive and therefore to the best use of time or user ...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 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

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

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

IBM BPM should support int64 format

In order to integrate with modern services (Blockchain/Hyperledger and a number of Watson services) using e.g. REST Outbound, IBM BPM should be able to support the int64 format for integer. This is an official Swagger format according to the Swagg...
about 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Planned for future release

Conversion tool for Heritage Human Services in BPM

Many long-time customers have large numbers of heritage artifacts, such as Heritage Human Services. There is no tool available to convert Heritage Human Services to a CSHS with the SPARK toolkit; you would have to recreate the entire UI by hand. A...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration