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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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For containerized FileNet, provide the option to completely disable logging to the file system

Currently, the logs for all the components are sent both to:- the output of the pods. - one or more PVC (file system).Due to restrictions/policies on the use of persistent storage on the cluster, the customer would like to completely disable loggi...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Enhancement of the REST-API to filter rules based on metadata

We use the REST interface to display rules and tables from the Decision Center in the customer's standard applications. Only a certain part of the rules is of interest, never all of them. Therefore, only those rules that are relevant should be ret...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Functionality already exists

Add Hierarchical BOM View to New Action Editor Like Existed in Old Editor

Please add the hierarchical view of the BOM that shows each object and each attribute that can be selected for each object to the new editors similar to what existed in the old editors.
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Readiness for KIE Server that includes DB readiness

KIE uses a persistence to store the latest state of the process instances etc. When a wrong configuration is provided for DB, KIE becomes ready but healthcheck return 503. As this scenario happens inside Kubernetes cluster, previous serving KIE PO...
7 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Under review

WebSphere liberty support for IBM Content Navigator on AWS EC2

Our organization is migrating on-premise Content Manager to AWS cloud. We use Content Navigator along with Content Manager. As per official documentation for IBM Content Navigator 3.0.11, "WebSphere Liberty is not supported with the traditional IB...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Better Variable Scope

As in other programming languages, variable scope would be very useful when calling subroutines. Subroutines should have in and out locally scoped variables that are set in the same way variables are set when calling executeScript
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

IBM Task Mining downloadable from the Web Console

Currently, Task Mining Agent is only downloadable from the Passport Advantage website. For SaaS offerings and to match other IBM Products, users could quickly obtain the Task Mining Agent by downloading it from the TM/PM web console. The abovement...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0

Update process with no outage

The opening of this AHA is due to the necessity to bring high availability to our internal process of updating and maintaining IBM RPA versions. Monthly the IBM RPA is updated to a new version. This update causes an outage during the maintenance ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Reinstate Auto color detection in Datacap v9.1.8

Auto Color detection during functionality missing in Datacap v9.1.8. This is available in v9.0 Problem statement: Our image center resources will be scanning high volume of documents both color and Black&white (gray). After scanning they uploa...
over 3 years ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Create query reporting tool

We are wanting to use the IBM Studio reporting tool, however, when trying to create my queries, I only found one way, which is by dragging the preloaded tables and fields using a 'Query Generator'. That way it's unfeasible, I need to assemble my o...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration