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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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Enhanced SAP support

IBM RPA should provide full BAPI support for SAP customers
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhance the recorder feature

The current recorder approach is confusing/quirky/unintuitive. No guidance is provided for new users (e.g. for using control key) and the approach feels unfinished.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

Support for headers configuration for the new Bots API callback URL

The new IBM RPA Bots API callback URL does not support any normal security arrangements. It's common practice to have some basic security (API Token, Basic Authentication, Bearer Token) on the API endpoints that we would normally use as callback U...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Add IBM RPA chatbot integration for "Line" app

Request to add chatbot support for "Line" application. Integrating the chatbot with channels in IBM RPA on premises - IBM Documentationhttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rpa/21.0?topic=prem-integrating-chatbot-channels-in-rpa-premises
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Enhancement request to introduce a new http / https based health check page to ensure that TMS service is up and responsive.

Datacap Taskmaster servers are setup for using IBM Cloud Load Balancer. Enhancement request to introduce a new http / https based health check page to ensure that TMS service is up and responsive. Currently Datacap do not have any health check for...
8 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Authorise create a branch in DC that would reuse the existing branch of a dependent projects when creating new branch.

When DC creates a branch at the decision service level it needs to be created in every dependent project.If the branch already exists DC will prevent the creation. With the edit dependencies we manually change the local maintenance branch, referen...
about 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Planned for future release

Object Store Table Schemas for Datacap

Ad per customer this will help customer database team to take refrence
8 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Have a similar indicator to the comment bubble, for activities with documentation

Currently, there is no way on knowing where there is something to read inside an activity when its been placed on the documentation section. It would be helpful to have an icon like the comments bubble, or the linked process icon.
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Support generic (custom) LDAP providers as target for the SID Migration Update tool

Cloud Pak for Business Automation extends support for generic LDAP providers in version 22.0.2, beyond IBM SDS and Microsoft AD, to include support for "Custom" LDAP providers, in line with the support statement of the Foundational Services. This ...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Notification panel inside the control center

In the control center, there may be a place where IBM notifications are located and created by the tenant administrator. Examples of notifications generated by IBM: scheduled GMUD, discontinuation of commands, and license expiration, among others.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration