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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

All ideas

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Support for AS400 terminal (TN5250)

Currently there is no terminal support for AS400 yet
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Deleting tracks from Process Center

I am not able to delete track from an process application, I can only archive it. There are multiple tracks in an process app which are not used since long, need to clear those to improve performance. I have raised a PMR mentioned above, it seems ...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Delivered

IBM Content Manager 8.7 Rest Services API; Please create a method to retrieve Attribute Definitions of an Itemtype

Hello CM8 Developer Team, to build up our dynamically input mask with dynamic attribute input for each Itemtype for eventually creating asearch query, we miss an appropriate Rest Service Call to retrieve such attribute definition data. We have som...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager (CM8) 1 Delivered

User management trail functionality for system auditing

Many BAW user companies are required to prepare SOC report (System and Organization Controls) on a regular basis. The report should include when users and groups in the system were created, when they were deleted, etc. In the BAW, users are often ...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

BAW support for RHEL 8

Test and ensure support for BAW on RHEL 8
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Long loading waits for dashboards

Loading the dashboard takes about 5 minutes the first time with new data reload etc with no hint to user
about 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Delivered

Process Mining: Enable re-usage of Process App for the same process in order to add more data

In the current state of the product (version 1.14.1), Process Apps can be used once to create a process in IBM Process Mining. If the use case requires adding more data later on, this is only possible by manually uploading the data as csv data set...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Delivered

Increase maximum characters value of IBM RPA credential

Currently, the IBM RPA maximum character value for a credential is 255. For example, a token which contains 450 characters makes IBM RPA unable to deal with those cases unless the token string is divided by two credentials, TokenPart1 and TokenPar...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Delivered

Add ability to upload and retrieve documents in incremental parts via the GraphQL API.

Add the ability to upload and retrieve documents via the GraphQL API in small increments (chunks). This will enable large files to be uploaded and retrieved without exceeding common timeout settings for incoming/outgoing HTTP requests/responses. T...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Delivered

log4j 1.x jar's support ended. Move jar versions to 2.15 and above

We recently found out that BAW uses log4j 1.x version which is unsupported version. We understand that log4j1.x jars are used in the product not vulnerable CVE-2021-44228 and it is vulnerable to CVE-2021-4104 if JMSAppender feature is used. Howeve...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered