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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...

All ideas

with reference to TS020728795, Concurrent login enabled, Inadequate input validation, Session doesn’t Expire Post Changing Password issues found in OnDemand Penetration test

Item Issue Description Impact Recommendation IBM feedback 1 Concurrent login enabled: The test team observed that the application allows concurrent login attempts through the client. We were able to run two concurrent sessions from s...
8 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

Support for distributed databases

We would like to request if distributed databases such as tdsql and GaussDB would be added to the database compatibility list for BAW and Datacap ?
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Leave browser instance open when it hits an error or stopped in debug

Currently when a browser instance hits an error it closes itself. This causes significant pain in trying to develop fast and debug any issues.
about 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Specific log files for different apps

When using IBM BPM on cloud, we need some capability as developer to define different log files for different process application).
almost 9 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Task Mining - suggestions for automating micro-tasks

Automated prompts, for example: “this task takes an average of 3 minutes and occurs 100 times a day - it's worth automating.”
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Built-in root cause analysis

Automatic detection of the causes of process problems (e.g., delays, errors, bottlenecks) and recommendation of corrective actions.
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Integration with RPA tools in real time

Enabling automatic detection of locations where robots can replace manual labor and immediate implementation of automation, such as in UiPath or Automation Anywhere
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Add the officially support for Git as software configuration management systems in IBM Integration Designer.

IBM Integration Designer has officially support about only Concurrent Versions System (CVS) and Rational Team Concert (RTC) as software configuration management systems.Git is considered a common software configuration management systems, could yo...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Get attributes of a web element

Currently, if someone wants to get the href from an anchor tag (<a>), it needs to get the raw html and use regex. It would benefit everyone to get a dictionary of all html attributes of a particular element, that way, anyone can easily inspe...
about 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to change default sorting of documents attached to a case

When users rely on document attachments for work on cases, they may need to sort them on other fields than the document name.
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Functionality already exists