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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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SAP - Implement Grid View Toolbar mapping and highlighting on recorder

The Grid view toolbar buttons can't be mapped by the recorder. Users have to use SAP embedded recorder to discover the button ids and use them according to this documentation. We should implement this mapping to make it easier for the customer to ...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

BOM and Domain Spreadsheet Mapping is Positional

We have attached a doc file explaining in detail with the screenshots.
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Auto-create fields based on "empty" sample

In cases where a PDF has hundreds of checkboxes - like a user survey form might have, it becomes tedious to define all the fields. The current design forces each field to be manually created with name and type upfront, before you can map it to a l...
10 months ago in Automation Document Processing 0 Submitted

Add script version to AuditEvent table when published

When working with IBM Robotic Process Automation OnPremises, checking the AuditEvent table helps keeping records and organize some audit data. Specifically when it comes to publishing scripts, it's possible to see that there's a column to map the ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Support for FNCM Operator in separate namespace(s) to it's operands on OpenShift

On OpenShift deploying FNCM as on CNCF with no Cluster roles is not a supported configuration. FNCM when deployed on OpenShift requires Cluster Level roles (for Cluster level artefacts such as Routes). On a shared Cluster (multiple customers or mu...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Allow Viewers to Comment on Discovery Maps and Process Diagrams

Why is it Useful: This allows the Viewer community which only have Viewer Licenses to collaborate on Discovery Maps and Process Diagrams. This is an essential part of the mainstream process mapping, getting customer input and consensus. Who would ...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Allow to use config map/secret to mount files to ODM pod

The client have some common 3rd party library jar files shared by different rulesets, instead of putting them in XOM lib for each ruleset, they want these classes to be loaded only once. So they are fine to use downloadURL for these files. But the...
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

Improve documentation and context between CP4BA, foundational services and specific components

The documentation landscape between a specific cloud pak , the foundational services and the specific components are hard to follow and there are not enough links to navigate the user to the right location. e.g. Finding APIs on a certain topic is ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

Meta data fields - Free format text input

There are certain meta data fields in Blueworks which requires users to input free textFor e.g.. Risk Description, Controls etc...These fields are unlikely to be the same on different processes and will start to build up rapidly once we start buil...
about 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

ARSDOC QUERY to provide mapped values

When running ARSDOC QUERY to extract data from CMOD the option to pull out the mapped values as displayed on the client. We have a use case where we want to get the mapped values and not the database values. Using CMOD REST is not the best tool fo...
11 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 9 Not under consideration