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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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Please include folder manipulation in the FTP commands

It is currently not possible to create or delete folders with the IBM RPA FTP commands and this is something very basic that other tools like Automation Anywhere v11 have. When we are working with a file server, the need to manipulate folders is e...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Finding toolkit references/usage in Process Application

We have several Process Applications in our environment with > 15 toolkit dependencies. When we want to upgrade or remove any unneeded toolkit dependencies, there is no efficient way to check whether a process application is referencing or usin...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add an option in the CM Web Admin Plugin to properly set TRACELEVEL to -15 for support traces

There's currently no easy way to set the TRACELEVEL value to -15, which is often requested by L2, for the library server trace. The admin desktop client has this feature, but not the web admin plugin. It could be useful to have a "Support Trace" o...
6 months ago in Content Manager (CM8) 0 Planned for future release

Retention Settings of Snaplock device are cached even across CPE restarts

Dealing with a case we became aware, that changing the min/default/max retention times of a Snaplock volume did not reflect in FCD trace. Traces show that the retention times are still compared with the old settings the snaplock device had before....
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Add the officially support for Git as software configuration management systems in IBM Integration Designer.

IBM Integration Designer has officially support about only Concurrent Versions System (CVS) and Rational Team Concert (RTC) as software configuration management systems.Git is considered a common software configuration management systems, could yo...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Visibility of Work to Admins

Process Apps are only visible to the user who starts them. Other people can not see the workflow process and status.Proposed Feature: All administrators should be able to see all process apps (started / finished/in process)
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Show ICN Pluigin Names. Plugin IDs and Version information on the Ping page

Currently to gather this information you need to look in multiple places Plugin Name (Display) from the plugins page Internal names from the Ping page Plugin ID's are only available by turning on Debug and restarting ICN to capture it.
over 4 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

ApplySearchFilter: Add support to use Hour And Minute in the Start and End time parameter

For now, the ApplySearchFilter command does not support using the hour and minute format in the start date and end date. The command will not fail or generate any error messages, but the filter will only use the month/date/year
6 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Configurable option for Datacap Application Deployment Tool (DCDexployment.exe) to stop the Taskmaster during deployment

As per below documentation, End-to-end remote deployment on Datacap Taskmaster Server, Rulerunner, and Datacap Web Services web servers includes starting and stopping the servers. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/datacap/9.1.9?topic=administering-datac...
12 months ago in Datacap 1 Not under consideration

Several conditions in the same IF/DO/DO WHILE statement

Allow IBM RPA Studio to add several conditions joint with AND or OR in the same IF/DO/DO WHILE statement.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration