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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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Compatibility mode on MS Edge for IE11 for IBM RPA

Microsoft announced Microsoft IE 11 EOS in June 15th, 2022. However, they provide Edge IE compatibility mode as alternative solution for IE11 customers. Some of the Brazilian .gov websites only support its access through IE11, and due to that, it ...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

ODM 8.11: We need manual rule lock/unlock feature in BC

ODM 8.11 BC, doesn't have rule lock/unlock feature which is available in enterprise console. We need that future in BC too. This feature is useful for below scenarios, Rule writer's once rule change is completed, they lock the rule and request for...
almost 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Delivered

Allow business managers to view and manage all the tasks for a given BAW solution

In the BAW documentation it is mentioned in the "Configuring in-baskets for roles" section that "You can assign this in-basket to a manager or supervisor role in addition to a personal in-basket" but there is also a note that says that from V20.0....
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Adding custom faceted filters in ICN Simple Search

The new ICN Simple Search only offers default faceted search filters (i.e. Class, Modified By, Modified On, Added By, Added On, File Type, and Size), but most users want to be able to filter on additional business properties. The simple search sho...
almost 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

Use of Deaja Viewer by default when viewing a document in a task

We are using CP4A 20.0.3 and it is not possible to use by default the Daeja Viewer to open the Document Preview in a case client task. This means that file viewing / downloading relies on the browser configuration and the behavior is not consisten...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Use of LDAP groups for IBM Content Navigator Administrators

We currently use LDAP groups to manage permissions in all CP4BA components, but ICN only offers the ability to add user IDs as administrators, not LDAP groups. In order to have a consistent approach for managing permissions for administrators in C...
almost 2 years ago in Content Navigator 2 Delivered

Easily manage snapshots with REST API (delete and rename)

Our ODM implementation requires a full autonomy for our users in managing/testing/deploying rules. A baseline is created each time a user deploy rules into test environment. When deploying into production environment, we extract ruleset thanks to ...
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 5 Delivered

In Case Information widget in a Case, move documents to a parent folder

In a BAW application including case features management, we are using the "Case Information" Widget in the "Case details page". For the "Documents" tab, we want to be able to move one or many documents directly to the breadcrumb (folder) to a PARE...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

"Added by" filter uses all the user from the LDAP

When searching cases by the property « Added by “, a field is shown to help choose the proper user. But the field search is linked to all the users from the LDAP, even if the users are not allowed to used Case Management. We are expecting that "Ad...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Selecting a later page in "Work" tab results in many API calls to reach that page.

When looking at the "Work" tab in Case Client, directly choosing a page other than the first one results in an ever-increasing number of API calls to the MergedWorklistService. The code is effectively calling “nextPage” until the desired page is r...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered