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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,

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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
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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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

Provide appropriate chatbot behaviour when there're insufficient licenses

When a company has 5 IVA's and 6 customer tried to use the chatbot, the server simply does not start the chatsession for the 6th customer. It might be worthwhile to investigate either - queue mechanism with timer to indicate when a chatbot is avai...
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Request for Enhanced User Login Security in IBM Datacap Navigator

The requested feature aims to enhance user login security for our IBM Datacap Navigator and IBM Navigator applications. Specifically, it would: Enable a single-user login restriction: Once a user successfully logs in, any subsequent attempts to lo...
over 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

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

Allow passing in null value for Integer and Decimal Input Variables in Client Side Human Services

Client-Side Human Services (CSHS) currently initialize integer and decimal variable types to 0 for Input and Private variables that are undefined or null. This is different behavior from Heritage Human Services (HHS) which does not do this. Also S...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 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

Make terminated instances recoverable

When a process instance is terminated it is not possible to recover the instance. This means that if an instance is terminated by accident it takes complex manual intervention to recover. If the number of instances terminated is large the task bec...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Auto-set the BWL Storage Quota to Zero to ensure the attachment feature is disabled for all users.

I'd like to have the Auto-setup done for Storage in BWL to be set to zero to ensure the attachment feature is disabled for all users after an update or refresh from the BWL side.
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Compatibility of CMOD with Scality S3

Santander Bank has scality s3 as object storage standard as well as CMOD for content management. It is desirable to have official compatibility to integrate them and having support in long term
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration

Provide an option to create Edge routes when deploying FileNet Standalone on OCP

This makes it possible to manage the TLS certificats in a single location: at the cluster level. The same certificat is then exposed to all the clients connecting to all the applications running on the OCP cluster.With re-encrypt routes the certif...
9 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration