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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).


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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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Execution evaluator for Web Designer

in Process Designer we got Execution Evaluation to check any data expression it is very useful for quick debug and production support.Could you please reintroduce this feature into Web Designer?
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Create menu to open Screen Capture Tool while recording

Currently, only the PrtSc key opens the Screen Capture tool. This is not well supported with current VMware image environment for customer education. As a workaround, we must ask students to open the image in RDP and in fullscreen mode to send the...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Support S3 Object Lock aka storage enforced retention

OnDemand actually will fail to upload (update) a such object which is already known and under retention lock down (WORM). Have a look at: - Case TS003855621 - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/object-lock-overview.html
over 4 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 6 Delivered

External integration with Edit Services

A number of users view documents from an external application using the Content Navigator linking API. These same users edit a subset of the documents using the Content Navigator Edit Service. This solution currently requires the users to leave th...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

The SAP Adapter should to be able to handle multi cardinality objects that are returned from SAP.

In the SAP Adapter, it corresponds to the single cardinality object returned from SAP.Currently, it does not correspond to multi cardinality objects.SAP may return a response that requires multi cardinality objects. Failure to properly process the...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

BPCExplorer should to be able to handle multi cardinality objects returned from SAPAdapter.

In the BPCExplorer, it corresponds to the single cardinality object returned from SAPAdapter.Currently, it does not correspond to multi cardinality objects.SAP may return a response that requires multi cardinality objects. Failure to properly proc...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Allow JSON Data model Import

NYS Tax has a complex data model with Quarterly/Annual updates , hence it will be cumbersome to utilize the existing ADS data model approach that allows manual entry. We would like to import the JSON data model auto generated by our system into AD...
about 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Delivered

Linked 'From' and Linked 'To' - processes to be displayed for user with Viewer licenses

In 'Process summary', or 'where used', the Linked 'From' published processes and Linked 'To' published processes is visible to an Editor. The same feature to be made available for Viewer licence as well.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Delivered

IBM RPA to use OAuth to authenticate with Exchange mail servers

Since Microsoft has already started disabling basic authentication in the default security policies and considering that basic authentication reaches its EOS on October 1st, IBM RPA could handle the 2FA/MFA authentication for IMAP and other email ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

OAUTH Authentication for CMIS SOAP and REST

My org requires a stronger authentication method than BASIC AUTH to CMIS REST, I am requesting the ability to use OAUTH authentication for CMIS REST and SOAP interfaces.
about 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Delivered