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:

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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,

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  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
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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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All ideas

    There should be a kind of BPM API to get business data of an instance and according to it, to get another business data (which is Instance ID).

    Once a checkbox is selected, there should be a service called, so customer would like to get all the instance IDs that should have service working. Hence, they need to make a call, that takes all instances and checks whether particular checkbox is...
    almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

    Unable to specify a custom version while deploying XOM to RES V8.12.0

    When we deploy XOM to RES V8.12.0 by using API or from RES Console, by default it uses a sequential XOM version numbering, such as: 1.0, 2.0 etc. While deploying XOM we see only two options: 1) Increment resource major version, 2) Increment resour...
    7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

    Hotkey option for next problem field in Datacap Navigator

    Datacap Navigator performing verify task for a batch with multiple fields containing problems. End-user would like to use the "enter" button to go to the next problem field.This is currently not possible. Only the "tab" key can go from problem fie...
    7 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Functionality already exists

    Process Inspector should allow to filter Process Instances on Process Start Date

    BAW Process Inspector allows to filter processes by Status, Sev. Type, Process App, Person and Last Modified Date. In addition to these, Process Inspector should allow to FILTER on Process Start date to allow Business Analysts to dig into process ...
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Log the query that was performed by the bot in any SQL command error

    We build queries in ibm rpa by concatenating ibm rpa variables with pre-build int queries. Sometimes those variables may have incorrect values, and the query will fail. The problem is, IBM RPA will not log query in most cases, and when it does, it...
    over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

    zRES logging behaviour - integration with z/OS Console

    Hi all, ODM must be highly available (no outages allowed) and we must be able to react on very short notice (real-time) if a problem occurs. If ODM is not responding for whatever reason, all transactions will be blocked/cannot be executed. Current...
    over 8 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

    Improve the Get Next functionality

    Scenario 1: 1. Case1 from default sorting order is opened by user in tab/browser1 leave it without processing 2. Case 2 is open in tab/browser2 and completed Expected is, Case3 (Based on sorting priority. This can next case in queue or any new cas...
    7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Support Secure String Inputs for Remote Bot Execution via API and User Prompts

    Currently, IBM RPA lacks the ability to: Accept secure strings (masked/encrypted inputs) dynamically during bot execution (e.g., via Input Box commands). Pass secure strings as parameters through API-triggered bot executions, The only way to use t...
    about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

    LDAP Sync on multiplatform CMOD: Enable wild card with user filter in ars.cfg.

    Currently there is no wild card allowed under ARS_LDAP_USER_FILTER parameter in ars.cfg file. This feature is present in ARS_LDAP_GROUP_FILTER parameter. Because of this, the users and groups are able to independently sync to CMOD after arslsync i...
    over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 4 Functionality already exists

    ProcessInstances and UserTaskInstances are two separate root queries, make it possible to combine them into a single unified result using GraphQL

    Require a single comprehensive API (facade layer) to streamline workflow integration.
    7 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 1 Functionality already exists

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