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).


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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
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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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All ideas

    GenAI Search Document Query Object

    Provide an API that will allow for searching based on document properties and their values so the search can be incorporated into the GenAI Multi Doc process vs. having to query FileNet to get the document GUIDs and then call GenAI Multi Doc. This...
    12 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

    Automatic backup execution for the Scripts being edited.

    While a script is being edited, being a new script or an old one under review, from time to time (every 3 minutes for example - but let the user configure that time) IBM RPA should perform a backup of the script in the current state. This is impor...
    over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists

    Using API to delete uploaded CSV files

    Client wants to use API to delete uploaded CSVs. Since we already have API /integration/csv/{projectKey}/upload for upload CSV files and we can manually delete chunks by using Manage -> data source -> trash button. Can we have an API to do t...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

    Case insensitive query on GraphQL

    We need a way to make the comparison lowercase or uppercase when querying with graphql (additional optional parameters) For example, customer would like conditions to process Name to be the same results when doing with either {"like": "Hi*"} {"lik...
    6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

    Add missing features from Traditional BAW environment System Data toolkit in Cloud Pak for Business Automation

    Several features or components available in Traditional BAW - System Data toolkit are removed from the Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) System Data toolkit. CP4BA "System Data" toolkit has only SQL integration components available and doe...
    over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Export / import process instances from a backup in case of disaster or loss of data

    Sometimes it could happens that a process instance get lost, and we would being able to import this instance without impacting on the running instance. Let me pose 2 examples: Example 1: During a disaster a lot of instance could have been lost, bu...
    almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    Dark mode theme for Content Navigator

    In addition to the default theme, users wants to have a dark mode theme as most applications are offering this display (for both energy consumption and eyes comfort)
    over 4 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

    Ability to import / export saved searches

    It'll be a very useful to provide "export / import" features around saved searches to enable re-usability.
    about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Pending activities executing automatically after license reset

    When the license is activated, it executes all the tasks that were in the queue. We would like to provide the function, for the user to choose if they want to run the processes pending or not.
    about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

    Allow multiple users to be selected at one time to archive

    To manage our licenses I archive users who haven't used BWL in one year or more. That means selecting many users monthly to archive. It would be a significant time savings if I could select multiple users to archive at one time.
    over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

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