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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 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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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...
8 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Improve Entry Template loading speed by optimizing client-side validation

Optimizing the validation process will enhance the end-user experience, save time, and improve efficiency.
over 1 year ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Under review

Implement the Token-Exchange protocol extension of oauth

Our organization's identity architects have been working with security architects and deemed a change needs to be made at our organization. They are calling for the eventual adoption of "Token Exchange" features of oauth. We integrate with 20+ tea...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Not under consideration

Export directly to PDF in addition to DOCx

Customer uses PDF to display results. Currently need to export to Docx, ftp file to windows server, convert to pdf, then ftp back.
8 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Case Client task in basket reloading and resetting to top

Current functionality works that you always end up in the first page after a case closure/completion, but not in the page from which specific case was opened. It would be much better that after case closure you would end up in the same page from w...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

CMOD - Increase 2GB Group Index Limitation

We index datasets that get very close to the 2GB limitation. File sizes can reach >14GB where index groups can be near the 2GB imposed limit by CMOD. Can it can increased to 4GB or larger? See https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/maximum-input-fil...
over 4 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Automation Scripts using https instead of ping

We are suffering from not having ICMP ping enabled in the customer environment. We suggest to ensure all scripts provided by IBM use consistent method when checking connectivity. We would prefer using https
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Allow for choosing the storage location for FileNet Content Manager thumbnails.

Currently, FileNet Content Manager 5.5.5 only allows thumbnails to be stored in the Object Store database. Even at the smallest thumbnail size, this begins to take up a large amount of space in the database. We have a requirement to generate thumb...
almost 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration

Virtual Viewer File Size limit

Add a parameter that allows an Administrator to set a limit on the file size that the virtual viewer will try to render and display. This should be per desktop if possible. This would prevent really large files from being rendered for display and ...
almost 4 years ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 1 Future consideration

Active Session Timeout Capability in CP4BA

Active session timeout in the CP4BA stack. In the current design, customer will need to change the active session timeout in ZEN, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/21.0.3?topic=administering-setting-session-idle-time-limits-...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration