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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

Add choice list value in order for sub-group (nested group) choice list

When use ACCE to add values into choice list, if on a single layer choice list, we can select the position where to add the new value in the list and it works properly. However, when doing the same on a sub-group (nested group) choice list, when a...
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Ability to use cp4a-prerequisites.sh for multiple runtime instances

Deploying multiple runtime instances in single namespace would be a common use case for CPBA - BAW runtime environments. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0.0?topic=cbawrws-optional-configuring-multiple-instances-business...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Add support in IBM Operational Decision Manager Decision Center to export decision tables directly as CSV or flat files, including support through the Decision Center API.

Today, Decision Center Business Console allows exporting decision tables as Excel files only. There is currently no standard capability to directly export decision tables as CSV or flat files, and no Decision Center API support for this type of ex...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

utilize Windows sizing features for both admin and configurator clients

Take advantage of the windows sizing feature so that more details are visible on the screen, such as directories when looking at the services on configurator, or looking at any attributes on the windows admin screens. This would include options to...
6 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

CMIS + OAUTH - Local Signature Verification

Background The way OAUTH was delivered in CMIS was... 1. User logs into identify provider and user receives a token 2. User passes that token to CMIS 3. CMIS reaches out to the identity provider and asks if the token is valid The enhancement my or...
over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Functionality already exists

Allow different options for downloading scripts

When selecting the “download scripts” button in the Tenant, an interface should open allowing you to choose parameters to filter the scripts. Ex: -Downloading all scripts (as it is today); -Download only scripts in production; -Download only the l...
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Ability to change email addresses of users in a list

Customer needs a way to bulk change email addresses. Especially on SAML2 customers.
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Blueworks Live reporting

An excel export of a space which includes the attributes of a process as well as attributes of an activity into a single sheet would give organizations visibility into their processes and also help with the reporting. We are a retail organization ...
about 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Turn off Browser Autocomplete

The autocomplete attribute in HTML forms is used to control whether browsers should automatically fill in input fields with saved user data. When set off, it should prevent the browser from suggesting previously entered values Impact If autocomple...
6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

Automatically requeue jobs that are "hung" in status RUNNING, QUEUED or RETRYING

Refer to this case : https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500gJ0000041QiyQAE/running-jobs-remain-in-state-ruuning-forever-after-a-network-issue?language=en_US I am running process instance in BAMOE 8.0.5. My process include a REST call in an aync ...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration