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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).


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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:

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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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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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Enhance general product ecosystem - extensibility

An AA metabots-like approach would provide more flexibility and extensibility to the product.
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Future consideration

Support for multiple projects in a single database

Within CP4BA 23.0.2, ADP requires you to have a single db instance per project. In case of multiple projects, it can make the creation/maintenance of the different db's cumbersome and increase cost. It would be preferred having a single database f...
21 days ago in Automation Document Processing 1 Future consideration

Systematic enforcement that the Approver cannot also be the Author of a change activity.

Allow the administrator to choose if the enforcement of this new constraint: The Approver of a change activity cannot also be the author of the same change activity. Enforcement of this constraint will ensure separation of duty is followed.
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Netapp SnapLock Customers are not welcome in the containerized world

There are many customers in the fields which are using FileNet Content Manager since years successfully in combination with Netapp SnapLock volumes. They have created many volumes due to compliance reasons. They have grouped volumes for each year ...
7 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Future consideration

Add String Manipulation Methods to Business Action Language

Currently there are no basic string manipulation methods in the Business Action Language in IBM Automation Decision Services (ADS). This leads to the need to implement basic string manipulation methods like toUppercase and toLowercase in external ...
about 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

IBM RPA ability to cancel bot in status Waiting

Currently, there are some situations in which the cancellation of a expected bot run can be useful. A cancel button and reset for the waiting schedules can improve the user experience and provide the user with even more control of the schedules.
12 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Customer wants to be able to sign documents from Content Naviagtor

Currently Davita has to use DocuSign for all signatures and every signature has a cost. If there was a way to include a signature option with a custom plugin or with Daeja, this could save the customer having to pay for every signature.
4 months ago in Content Navigator 1 Functionality already exists

use of MIME type application/pdf in OpenAPI Rest service invocation

Business case use the need of implementation of PDF in rest api services as evolving technology
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow to inform arguments when creating schedule

It is useful to inform arguments when creating a schedule because we can make different schedules dynamically using only one code and not needing to create multiple scripts to do so.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

use of PATCH or TRACE in REST service OpenAPI

Use of the Patch Operation offered by the Rest OpenAPI is required by the Business Case.
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration