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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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Provide a containerized standalone Daeja Virtual Viewer option

Customers would like to deploy a standalone Daeja virtual viewer as a container. This software is provided as a standalone offering, as well as part of FileNet Content Manager...which in turn makes it available for BAW and ICP4BA...all of which ar...
over 4 years ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Future consideration

request to support credential override through projects like we had for schedulers

This would be helpful for Customer to simplify daily work
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Enhancement Request: Handling SAP Menu Naming in IBM RPA

When interacting with SAP through IBM RPA, selecting the "Anlegen..." option opens a subsequent menu with a different name. This behavior doesn't align with our standard, where subsequent levels should retain the name of the triggering option. So ...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhanced Handling of Custom Toolbar Buttons in IBM RPA for SAP

IBM RPA’s current method of interacting with SAP toolbar buttons using toolbar IDs (e.g., Toolbar(0)) causes issues with custom buttons, such as freezing the SAP application when interacting with the second custom button. This is not a defect but ...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Publish/ Unpublish Status overview of maps

Status of the blueprints within a workspace. Example : Total Blueprints - 10, Published - 7, Unpublished - 3. Provide list of maps which are published and unpublished in the BWL.
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

CPE Object Store is not optimized documents with lots and lots of versions

Customer has versions series with 90,000 superseded versions and another case with 250,000. The objective is to delete all versions except the current version (want to delete 249,999 obsolete versions). Below is the diagnosis of the customer that ...
12 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Eliminate tablespace information for postgres in BAW on Containers

Customer: Discover Financial Services Product: Business Automation Workflow on Containers version : 22.x onwards DFS is using RDS Postgres Operator on AWS so we are not using the traditional postgres version, Cleanup is needed to keep required val...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Predefined schema creation setup in BAW on Containers

Customer: Discover Financial Services Product: Business Automation Workflow on Containers version : 22.x onwards DFS Postgres Design Pattern is to have schema creation is predefined step and should be created in advance with proper naming conventi...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Improve Search Functionality in New Editor

The new editor's search functionality has two critical issues: Incorrect Partial Matching: When searching for a term like "vip", the editor returns domains containing partial matches ( "ip" within "Tipo") instead of exclusively matching "vip". Thi...
12 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1

Webservice request using .pfx certificate

We need IBM RPA to support performing a web service request passing a pfx certificate.Both commands need to have https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rpa/21.0?topic=web-http-request and https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rpa/21.0?topic=web-soap-request.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration