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...
Share feedback 7
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
Share feedback 0

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Word-Wrap Participants in Swim Lanes

Long participant names get truncated in screen views of a process map and are fully presented in printouts. For printouts, it creates challenges because the swimlane height is expanded even if it is only one activity deep. We would like it to word...
almost 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Export function to download list of environment variables for snapshots.

When new snapshot is installed, new values of environment variables are updated.By synchronizing snapshots on Process Admin Console, current values can be synced to new snapshot from current snapshot. Customers may want to check whether synced val...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

CMOD - Increase 2GB Group Index Limitation

We index datasets that get very close to the 2GB limitation. File sizes can reach >14GB where index groups can be near the 2GB imposed limit by CMOD. Can it can increased to 4GB or larger? See https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/maximum-input-fil...
over 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

IBM BPM Teams Enhancement

IBM BPM 'Teams' cannot be shared easily across multiple process applications unlike groups (which got deprecated ~IBM BPM v8.0 timeline. These Teams unlike groups , are tied to snapshots and have unique db record for each snapshot they are belong ...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Command that returns the subfolders within an indicated folder

In the email, sometimes new subfolders appear or some are removed. So I needed something dynamic, a command that I would pass to it the root folder or the connection and it would return the list of subfolders.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Implement a P8 #Creator place holder

A business partner has a requirement where they do not want the creator user to be the owner of a document, but they still need to apply permissions to the creator on that document. The current #Creator-Owner place holder is too broad for their ne...
over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

Introduce support for entry templates in Navigator Interface for Microsoft Office (NIMO)

While using NIMO, we are unable to use Entry Templates to default the folder class. This severely limits functionality as we are unable to run custom business logic on custom folder classes (extended from the base Folder class).
over 3 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

IBM Process Mining SaaS - Allow Regular Admin user to visualize audit history

Currently, on IBM PM SaaS, only IBM can visualize the content of the Audit. Requests need to be done through cases. The goal of this idea is to allow customers to visualize the audit table with regular admin permissions.
8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release

Automated communications/distribution lists

Create a comprehensive, responsive & automated way of communicating with the 'users' and developers of the bots that can also be adapted to notify certain groups when it wouldn't be appropriate to notify everyone. Examples of situations where ...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Export Search Results

When any search results are presented, allow user to export those results to an Excel workbook. 1. Perform search (spaces, processes, etc.) 2. Blueworks Live presents results 3. User clicks new "Export Results" button 4. User presented with dialog...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

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