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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...

All ideas

BPM Table Pagination - Add Configuration to get sequential pagination

The current stock table control is displaying the calculated pagination numbers with internal algorithm. At the moment there is no option to change it to standard pagination with sequential paging numbers. This RFE is to add a config to have conve...
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Robotic Framework

I developed, at the bank where I work, an internal framework aimed at more experienced developers, focused on building complex and enterprise-grade processes, with the goal of increasing productivity, standardization, and robustness. The framework...
6 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Multiple Administrator Groups

Currently, all users present in tw_admin groups have access to all features on Process Admin Console. Segregated/restricted rights to be assigned to admin user for each application. 1. Administrator of workflow app 1 should not be able to access w...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Desktop and Entry Template (FileNet) ability to filter choice list items

This is useful to speed up user processes by focusing them on relevant content. Example for a search/saved search the user will only be presented with the items from the choice list of document types that his team works with preventing scrolling o...
6 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Disable shortcut popup in IBM Datacap Desktop

Hello, A user scans a batch by clicking on the “Scan” shortcut, the scanning interface opens. The user scans a batch, then clicks on “Submit”. A first popup appears, then disappears after 10 seconds. The scan interface closes and a second popup ap...
over 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Under review

ICC Mail should support start supporting MS Graph Rest API (eliminate need to install Outlook client on server)

In current versions of Content Collector 4.0.1, ICC relies on an Outlook client installation to get access to required libraries and the option to create a profile. This requirement is more often refused by security departments. Microsoft strategy...
about 2 years ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 1 Future consideration

ODM Standalone Operator

We currently utilise the Helm chart installation of ODM but would prefer a standalone operator to be made available. Support provided option with CP4BA, but we would like something else avoids unnecessary dependence on Cloud Pak Foundational Servi...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Request for New Action: ex_login_O365_OAuth_Graph_ClientSecret for Passwordless O365 Authentication via Graph API to be used in combination with the ex_SetProxy or ex_SetProxy_FullURL

Currently, Datacap's EWS action library lacks support for passwordless login to Office 365 using modern authentication. With Microsoft discontinuing EWS support, existing login actions are no longer viable. Additionally, there is no Graph API-base...
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Integração com Google Planilhas

Google Planilhas tem quando certa relevância no mercado, nossa empresa por exemplo não usa mais o Microsoft Excel. Hoje as automações com Google Planilhas precisam ser feitas através da conversão do arquivo .gsheet para .xlsx, funciona até certo p...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Visibility of Work to Admins

Process Apps are only visible to the user who starts them. Other people can not see the workflow process and status.Proposed Feature: All administrators should be able to see all process apps (started / finished/in process)
almost 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration