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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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Support for PDF documents with attachments in Daeja ViewONE Virtual Viewer

The feature would enhance the Daeja ViewONE Virtual viewer to support viewing of attachments in PDF documents. There are existing PDF documents that contain embedded attachments of other PDF files, text files, MS word documents and TIFF files. Whe...
over 3 years ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 1 Future consideration

Command Connection with Terminals with instance output referring to the created connection

It would be interesting that the commands that create a connection with the terminals not only have the Boolean output 'Success' but also have an instance-type output that allows sharing the connection created with other scripts, such as a paramet...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Add a Pan view window to the process diagram display

Add an option to have a Pan & Zoom window that appears within the Process Diagram view so the user can see the entire Process Diagram in a thumbnail. The functionality should be similar to what is in Visio for the Pan & Zoom window.
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Change path for temp folders that creates ABBYY engine during processing document/pages with action RecognizeToPDFOCR_A.

Currently, it is not possible for the user to set a custom temporary path for temp folders that creates ABBYY engine during processing document/pages with action RecognizeToPDFOCR_A. Default path is in the environment is "C:\Windows\Temp\ABBYY Fin...
7 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Performance Improvement: add index on CorrelationKeyInfo.processInstanceId in your schema

This is based on this case: TS016078647 In our domain, we run a couple of IBM BAM instances on PostreSQL. Our DB experts figured, that on the IBM BAM schema, an index would be helpful to increase performance. The symptom was, that in our case, the...
7 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Under review

Request for Enhanced User Login Security in IBM Datacap Navigator

The requested feature aims to enhance user login security for our IBM Datacap Navigator and IBM Navigator applications. Specifically, it would: Enable a single-user login restriction: Once a user successfully logs in, any subsequent attempts to lo...
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Allow Viewers to Comment on Discovery Maps and Process Diagrams

Why is it Useful: This allows the Viewer community which only have Viewer Licenses to collaborate on Discovery Maps and Process Diagrams. This is an essential part of the mainstream process mapping, getting customer input and consensus. Who would ...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Add Release Locks to ODM Decision Center REST API

Currently to "release locks" in the ODM business console a user must have Administrator privileges. If they are an Admin, then they can do anything. This is a violation of separation of duties. If the Release Lock action were available via the RES...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Not under consideration

Auto-set the BWL Storage Quota to Zero to ensure the attachment feature is disabled for all users.

I'd like to have the Auto-setup done for Storage in BWL to be set to zero to ensure the attachment feature is disabled for all users after an update or refresh from the BWL side.
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Compatibility of CMOD with Scality S3

Santander Bank has scality s3 as object storage standard as well as CMOD for content management. It is desirable to have official compatibility to integrate them and having support in long term
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration