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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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Assign work task to group

Being able to assign work task to a group of users and not just to a named person
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 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 ...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 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

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...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Command "Watch and Set Credentials in Browser" not working when window security name is changed

The Watch and Set Credentials in the Browser command do not work in some versions of Microsft Edge. The reason why is because Microsoft recently changed the window security name from "Window Security" to "Sign in to access this site". With this ch...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Support case instances migration

Currently BPM does not support the migration of case instances. I would like to have the possibility to migrate the case instances. This is a very important feature.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Decision Engine BOM2XOM ARL editor needs auto-completion

The Bom2XOM mapping field does not auto-complete entries when using the Decision Engine instead of the classic rules engine.The ARL based field don't respond to CTRL + SPACE so you have to manually type in all the code
over 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 4 Delivered

RPA Support for Edge

We need to support Edge for IBM RPA
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Delivered

Video streaming in Navigator for CM8 clients

Today's Navigator allows the streaming of videos stored in FileNet CM. But also CM8 clients see more and more videos saved in the repository. Since CM8 has also an API for streaming, it should be feasible to implement also a video streaming in Nav...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 1 Delivered

Navigation to folders filled in from the document properties dialog

From IBM Navigator, when a document is filled in multiple folders, a user can go in the "document -> properties" dialog, in the "folders filled in..." tab to see all location where the document is filed. From this dialog/tab with the list of lo...
about 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered