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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 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
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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Support for Oracle Forms

There are still quite a few customers that still using / trying to transition from using Oracle Forms that run as applets inside web browser (IE and Edge in IE compatibility mode). Unfortunately IBM RPA is not able to identify the UI elements insi...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

MS SQL Server with jdbc > 10.2

It appears that MS SQL jdbc drivers > 10.2 have a change in behaviour related to ssl. The command BPMConfig -validate -db c:\IBM\bawinst\PC\Advanced-PC-ThreeClusters-SQLServer.properties fails with the following error CWMCB0313E: An error occur...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Warn if work is started and work already exists

When a user starts a workflow for a blueprint snapshot warn if there was already a workflow started before.
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Excel command for deleting a row needed

Trying to loading an excel in a data table, deleting a row from the data table, and expecting the row to be deleted on excel. The delete rows command works in memory, literally deleting a row in the variable, not on the excel file. There is no exc...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Include the time in the last change field in the component list view of the rule project

Product: IBM Operational Decision Manager It is required to display the date and time of the changes that have been made in the objects of the rule projects, for example rule flows, rules, etc. Currently in Decision Center 8.11 - Business Console ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Future consideration

Allow users the ability to set the default number of tasks

Our users would like the ability to set a default number of tasks. Currently, saved searches allow them to select 25, 50 or 75 tasks per page. They would like that to be a part of their profile so that they do not need to reset it each day.
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Plugin for integrating ibm content navigator with docusign signature appliance web app for filenet repository

There is a plugin for docusign integration but it doesnt cover the use case where client clients have docusign signature appliance installed locally and want to integrate the docusign web app with ibm content navigator to make signing documents fr...
almost 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Request to add Horizonatal configuration to radio button control

for the radio button control there's need to be a configuration option for displaying the buttons in horizontal order.
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Move File command return new path

Useful to avoid creating many new variables and having to add many commands just to get a simple path after moving the file. To get the new file path, currently, it is necessary to use "Get File Information" to get the file name and extension (in ...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Export schedules, computers and users list

For managing tenant. It would be great to have functions that allow exporting all schedules (active/inactive within timeframe) as well as computers and users in the tenant in their respective management tab
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration