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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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Don't allow Process Diagrams to have the same name within the same space

I am requesting that Blueworks Live make a change so that it does not allow users to create spaces with the same name. When a user tries to create a space with a name that already exists a message should pop up saying that a space with that name a...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Delete Snapshots and Orphan Toolkits

Too many steps necessary to do housekeeping and managing the complex BPM applications that Commerzbank is deploying e.g. to delete a snapshot you first have to fire a REST call to get all snapshot names from the application... then you have to che...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Have direct SAML authentication support for FileNet APIs

Right now FileNet APIs only support Kerberos as SSO authentication. However, these authentication protocols are becoming outdated compated to more advanced authentication prototcols like SAML. However, the FileNet documentation mentions there is n...
over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Be able to delete and edit process's variables

We need to be able to delete and edit process variables in the orchestrator. When you create a process in the orchestrator, on this process you can and will create variables, but when you create a variable with the wrong name or wrong type, you w...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

BPM User and Team Reassignment and Attribute Enhancement

BPM very commonly requires complex user management and routing patterns. One of the most common is implementing a user attribute to be used with a Team Filter Service in order to provide complex assignment patterns for tasks within BPDs. These att...
over 9 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

ICN Bookmark URL based search support for full text search (CSS) and search property hiding

We plan to integrate IBM Content Navigator (with FileNet Content Manager repository) into a business application through ICN bookmark URLs, according to the broader strategy to access and update in the context of business processes. Two important ...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Change path for temp folders that creates ABBYY engine during processing document/pages with action RecognizeToPDFOCR_A.

Currently, it is not possible for the user to set a custom temporary path for temp folders that creates ABBYY engine during processing document/pages with action RecognizeToPDFOCR_A. Default path is in the environment is "C:\Windows\Temp\ABBYY Fin...
7 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Performance Improvement: add index on CorrelationKeyInfo.processInstanceId in your schema

This is based on this case: TS016078647 In our domain, we run a couple of IBM BAM instances on PostreSQL. Our DB experts figured, that on the IBM BAM schema, an index would be helpful to increase performance. The symptom was, that in our case, the...
7 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Under review

Change the icon of the deactivated schedules on Projects

For now the strip icon is too thin and it's almost imperceptible when the schedule is activated or not. To improve visualization, this strip could be enlarged and this would resolve this issue or change the color of the deactivated to red instead ...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Case supports "forms"

https://www.ibm.com/docs/zh/baw/22.x?topic=widgets-form-widget describes that forms are not supported, which affects the use of users, and it is hoped that this function will be supported in the OCP environment.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration