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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

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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

Add an ability to check the CBR-status of a document in the full text index

Related to case TS008281004 we have the problem that there is no chance (confirmed by L3) to check if a document is correctly inserted into the full text index. We need a tool or consitency check that enables us to check, if a document and all its...
almost 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Exclude specific MimeTypes from being CBR-indexed BEFORE content is loaded from Fixed Content Device

We have several document classes that contain documents of a wide varity of mimetypes. The document classes are CBR enabled but it is very obvious that some MimeTypes within this document class are not valid for CBR indexing (i.e. images or videos...
almost 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

Enhance user roles of Decision Center so that separate different business departments with settings

Please add department user management roles of Decision Center which only can give authorization for users within only own department.The rules of each department is confidential information for them and they would not like to show it to users of ...
about 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Feature to register when an email is sent with a successful status (by the workflow tasks)

The customer wants a feature to monitor and register when an email sending is completed with a failed or success status. The reason behind this need is to bring evidence in case of an internal auditing. As a service provider company, my customer g...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Option to block upload for .doc extension or feature to convert from .doc to .docx

When a customer upload a .doc in the beginning of the workflow, the base64 of a .doc fail to receive some headers and footer components, causing the flow to fail. There is no chance of educating the customer users from uploading .doc documents and...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Modularize the Case tab in a way that allows some components to be hidden.

The customer needs an easy and quick way to make some items/options, like properties, unavailable to some users to avoid human error. CPFL created a ticket asking for assistance with this, but the support team suggested an RFE or customization due...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Functionality already exists

Feature to filter starred/favorite documents.

There is no way to create a report/use a filter with the documents flagged as favorite by the customer, so it seems that we don’t have any real benefits for the customer.
9 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Create a user-dictionary for UI elements translation.

When changing the system language, only the prebuild/vanilla textual elements are translated. This became a problem when the customer needs to use the solution in a multi-language setting because the labels or any textual elements created by the u...
9 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Include a mandatory index primary key for documents tables.

Due to the ability of creating document codes using integers or strings, in the case of a strategy change, the effort needed to include a new index and then fix the created structure is huge. By having a mix between string and integers, the orderi...
9 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Not under consideration