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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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Allow the descriptions added to metadata fields to be viewable in Analysis Mode

Currently you have to exit Analysis mode to see the descriptions that have been added to metadata fields that you just hover over to view. We would like this same functionality in Analysis Mode so as we trying to view certain metadata fields and f...
5 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Need to be able to specify multiple database types when using scripted installation

CP4BA supports multiple database types (e.g. Oracle, DB2, etc.), but some applications (e.g. ADP) do not support all database types. My customer mandates Oracle where possible. This means that when installing both FNCM and ADP, we have to use Orac...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

SOAP Web Services Policy set and bindings for inbound and outbound integration should be supported for CP4BA

Traditional Business Automation Workflow (BAW) supports defining policy sets and bindings for both inbound and outbound integrations. A customer who intends to migrate their existing BAW inbound and outbound integration to IBM Cloud Pak for Busine...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Process diagram with meta data

A view of the process blueprint as a 'Discovery Map' or 'Process Diagram' including all metadata associated with each process step. Ability to view the map and its meta data in a pictural form with linkages to details.
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

split screen that half of it will show the whole image instead of thumbnail

ease of reading document in ICN
2 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Future consideration

IBM RPA does not support HTML elements inside a 'shadow-dom'

Today the IBM RPA does not support HTML elements inside a 'shadow-dom' making click, focus, and other commands impossible to work in context within the browser. This feature is important because without the necessary support it is not possible to...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Creating users, groups and roles by using REST API should not ignore those created in the DC Business Console Administration tab

The DC REST API to retrieve the user roles registry is: GET /v1/repository/users-roles-registryBut in fact it does not retrieve all the users / roles. It only retrieves " the last configuration file that was uploaded". In fact the documentation ev...
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Allow multiple uploads of the same document

We have a business use case to allow one document to be uploaded to two different document classes. One document class has a subset of index information, but is viewable to a larger group. Our current solution is to scan the document in twice. Dat...
12 months ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Limit the size of BPM error objects for SOAP faults

When web service calls are made by BPM applications, the service providers may reply by passing back SOAP faults to indicate error conditions. These SOAP faults are transformed by BPM into tw.systems.error objects which thereby carry the informati...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Create a Linked Process 'FROM' an activity, so that the new Process inherits the Description and Input/Outputs

Scenario - I have a Level 4 business process... and I want to create a linked process (Level 5) for one of the Activities... (aware I can create a sub process in the same model.. but in this case I want separate models for variant control) I was t...
4 months ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration