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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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Simplified REST calling from service flows

To be able to call a backend from a process application, you either need to define the backend as a server in your process application, or create java classes that you pipe your calls through. It would be great if the Javascript-serverside-api had...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to change the default document sorting order in Case Information widget

Allowing admin/Case Developer to chose the metadata and order to sort document in the Case Information Widget. Today documents are sorted by the first column. It could be useful to case worker to improve their document treatment.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

Some improvements and questions for canvas in BAMOE 9.0.0

We're doing some tests with canvas product for BAMOE 9.0.0 (https://quay.io/repository/bamoe/canvas) and we have two important questions and concerns: 1. Can we connect with bitbucket vía ssh? As far as I read the communication with bitbucket is b...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Not under consideration

Reset search in "Cases" feature

When you open the "Cases" feature in ICN, you can filter the list of cases by adding search criteria, but if you want to return to the initial list, there is no "Reset" button and you must reload the entire desktop. The “Case” feature should have ...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Functionality already exists

Adding faceted filters in ICN Search

Faceted filters have been added in ICN Simple Search, but they should also be included in the standard ICN Search. Custom faceted filters requested in ICPFORA-I-204 must also be included.
8 months ago in Content Navigator 2 Future consideration

XSS when upload pdf file

As mentioned in case TS015573818, I want to handle xss errors when uploading files from BAW to ECM via CMIS. --Updated Jun-13-2024-- Besides XSS errors, we also encountered similar errors when exploiting via request payload. I describe this pro...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 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 ...
almost 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Different windows display resolution/scaling to be used apart from 100% in surface automation

Customer can change resolution depending on their environmentPractical difficulty in maintaining the same resolution on all user profiles https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6982559 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rpa/23.0?topic=trsr-rpa-studio-rec...
9 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Streamline, simplify and improve the process of installing debug builds

When we need to install a debug build, we first need to uninstall the current version, install the debug build, and then change the log levels to the desired state. Once the debug process is done, we need to get back to the old version, but more o...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Allow post logout redirect in CP4BA 21.0.3 as it was the case with UMS and CP4BA 20.0.3

With CP4BA 21.0.3 and CS 3.21, it is no longer possible to perform a logout on the external IDP side as it was the case with UMS and CP4BA 20.0.3 via a post-logout redirect . A solution has been proposed to us (see file TS010116671) but requires t...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Not under consideration