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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

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CPE\CSS unable to index MS Word documents that have sensitivity labeling of "Highy confidential". Also, Daeja Viewer cannot open them.

CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: Customer has added several MS word .docx files to their FileNet CPE repository that have a sensitivity labeling of "Highly confidential". That means that only members of the customer's organization can open these files. See ...
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Request tool for the IBM BAW instances and tasks migration to CP4BA BAW environment

Hi, Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC has successfully acquired the IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) platform as part of our continued efforts to modernize and streamline business process automation capabilities. We are currently undertak...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

Implement a feature for identifying which tasks are involved in OptimisticLockExceptions

Improve the product’s behavior so that, in case of an OptimisticLockException, it provides clear evidence of which tasks were involved in the conflict. This would help in understanding, at the design level, how to better organize the steps — for e...
8 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Not under consideration

Support Custom Secrets in CP4BA & FNCM Standalone

Allowing the mapping of custom secrets into workloads similar to custom_configmaps would better secure sensitive values mapped into deployed instances. Secrets are by default more restricted with default RBAC roles, and there are many offerings to...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Ability to Retrieve Combined PDF documents when multiple documents are sent for signature via the DocuSign plugin

Current Limitation: The plugin does not currently retrieve combined PDFs when multiple documents are sent for signature. Desired Behavior: The plugin should be able to retrieve combined PDFs that include the original documents, signed documents, a...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Implement a way of automatically copying/moving files in bulk from one RPA environment to another

At the moment , there's not a supported way of automatically copying/moving files in bulk from one environment to another. This can be helpful to make tests before migrating environments.
8 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0

Implement a way of automatically copying/moving files in bulk from one RPA environment to another

At the moment , there's not a supported way of automatically copying/moving files in bulk from one environment to another. This can be helpful to make tests before migrating environments.
8 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0

Generate warnings for unused verbalizations in Rule Designer

Add a feature to Rule Designer that will automatically identify the unused or unreferenced verbalizations in a Decision Service. One of the performance issues noted in IBM's documentation is the amount of verbalized fields in a Decision Service's ...
over 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Add merge cells feature in Table view for BAW

According to client business requirements, they are looking for merge cells feature in Table view (UI toolkit) based on some column data within the table.
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Request for PDF to Word Document Conversion Feature in Datacap

We would like to request the addition of an action in Datacap that enables the conversion of input PDF files to Word Documents.
over 1 year ago in Datacap 1 Under review