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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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

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

The introduction of a "latest" aggregate to filter events in BAI Dashboard

The dashboard should show the last action(Alone) carried out on items so user can only see the timestamp of the latest event and not all event on the primary filtered unique ID(filter). Examples: Documents are loaded on navigator.. Filter: Doc ID,...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Task mining - task classification - exclude task (not working)

Task classification - Exclude task (not working) In a situation where the user manually assigns a name to a task, in that case the option to exclude tasks does not work. Such a task should not proceed to the next steps (Project configuration)(I se...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Is a defect

Process Mining - What If - Your to-be scenario - automatic process overview update

Your to-be scenario - automatic process overview update At the level of Your-to-be scenario making changes in the Process evolutions and Configuration tabs and applying the Simulate action, the process overview is not updated. The same problem is ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Is a defect

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

Enable reverse propagation of choice list updates from Content Engine (ACCE) to Case Builder.

Choice list updates made directly in ACCE (Content Engine) should be reflected in Case Builder without being overwritten during solution redeploy. Currently, if a user updates a choice list directly in ACCE (for example, via a plugin or manually),...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Request a configurable option to disable drag-and-drop in ICN.

Request to add a configurable option to disable the drag-and-drop feature in ICN. This is intended to prevent business users from unintentionally moving folders.
almost 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Relates to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DCAP-I-359...

Relates to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DCAP-I-359, From Datacap PM, this should be Viewer's feature, directed to open ER/idea under product viewer. This feature is requested on behave of ST-New STATE OF NEW JERSEY While in Datacap scan or verify U...
8 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted

Add a feature for Datacap to handle Kerberos failover without falling back to NTLM, ensuring authentication remains on Kerberos in cross‑forest setups.

In distributed enterprise environments with cross‑forest domain trusts, Datacap currently connects to servers in different domains through IP, which indicates it is using NTLM authentication. NTLM is less secure and often restricted by organizatio...
8 months ago in Datacap 1 Not under consideration

IBM JDK 17 support

FileNet Content Management currently supports only IBM JDK 8 with traditional WebSphere. Though IBM JDK 8 is long term supported the industry has already moved to the latest version of JDK. Currently only the liberty supports with latest JDK. Need...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future 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