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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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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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Multiple documents via Docusign in Content Navigator

Select multiple documents to send via Docusign for signature in Content Navigator - Extension product: Docusign Plugin Users would find it helpful, to combine multiple documents (regarding one matter i. e. annual report or contract negotiations) i...
about 1 hour ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

The DocuSign signature status should not always be visible in the magazine view of search results

When viewing a search result in the magazine view, the value of the Signature Status property is shown as text and always visible. There is no option to hide this property from being displayed there. This can be confusing for users because the val...
about 2 hours ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

Preventing Multiple Concurrent Openings of the Same Task in IBM Process Portal

when a user opens a task in Process Portal, it is still possible to open that same task again in another tab or browser window. If there is a built‑in configuration, setting, or recommended approach that allows user to restrict a task to only one ...
about 8 hours ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Ask Your Repository Feature need to have the feature configuration option for choosing the default repository

--> Customer is using the “Ask your repository” feature .--> There is no option to set Feature configuration to default the Repository .--> When they use “Ask your repository” it always points to wrong repo where CA is not configured. So ...
about 22 hours ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

To extend the current indent guide line and/or to change font size in designer mode to increase the number of lines included.

In complex automations developed in IBM Robotic Process Automation Designer, workflows often contain multiple nested conditions, loops, and exception-handling blocks that are currently displayed at the same visual level. This makes large scripts d...
8 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Datacap Navigator to have the ability to delete pages directly from the image viewer via keyboard delete/shortcut or an action in the viewer menu.

Allow the ability to delete pages directly from the image viewer (single and multi‑page), via keyboard Delete/shortcut or an action in the viewer menu. Current option only allow page to be deleted from the batch tree.
12 days ago in Datacap 2 Submitted

Datacap Scan & Verify panel to display image in dual window and to allow thumbnail and image viewer to be separated

Allow dual window to have a separate dialogue box or viewer. One for the image viewer and one for the thumbnail viewer.
12 days ago in Datacap 1 Submitted

Add CMIS‑style offset/limit pagination support to the FileNet GraphQL API

FileNet’s GraphQL API only provides token‑based pagination, which requires clients to store and reuse a continuation token. This is difficult for distributed systems or lightweight clients that don’t keep state. Adding an optional offset/limit pag...
4 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Rediscover option for external services

If an external service is created based on the discovery of a Java, REST, or Web Service, a rediscover button is essential. This button would enable the updating of the methods associated with that service or defined object structure without the n...
27 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Submitted

Native Deployment scheduling feature within IBM Decision Center

We recommend introducing a native deployment scheduling feature within IBM Decision Center. This capability would allow business users to define a specific date and time for deploying rule changes to the Decision Server without requiring external ...
6 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted