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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...

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Feature to register when an email is sent with a successful status (by the workflow tasks)

The customer wants a feature to monitor and register when an email sending is completed with a failed or success status. The reason behind this need is to bring evidence in case of an internal auditing. As a service provider company, my customer g...
7 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Needs more information

Option to block upload for .doc extension or feature to convert from .doc to .docx

When a customer upload a .doc in the beginning of the workflow, the base64 of a .doc fail to receive some headers and footer components, causing the flow to fail. There is no chance of educating the customer users from uploading .doc documents and...
7 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Needs more information

Modularize the Case tab in a way that allows some components to be hidden.

The customer needs an easy and quick way to make some items/options, like properties, unavailable to some users to avoid human error. CPFL created a ticket asking for assistance with this, but the support team suggested an RFE or customization due...
7 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Needs more information

Hide / encrypt hard coded DC passwords in the database

Currently today we are required to input a service account password into the UI console of DC for Testing and Simulation RS, which hard codes DC passwords in the database. We are looking for a solution to hide/encrypt passwords and we will not be ...
25 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Needs more information

RuleApp Versioning Policy in Business Console and Rule Designer

Currently, Deployment Configuration in Business Console and Rule Designer do not support RuleApp Versioning Policy. We need to deploy ruleapp from Business Console that automatically increments the version of the ruleapp when it is deployed.
25 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Needs more information

DC Query for same business rule name

Customer is trying to find all business rules with list of rule names inside a certain package, however they need to also filter it by the parent folder (only validation or only computation) Find all business rules such that the name of the rule p...
29 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Needs more information

Adding Cases view in Workplace

In the IBM documentation it is stated that "Workplace brings together process, case, and workstream functions" but there is currently no Cases view which requires users to constantly navigate between Workplace and Cases. For the sake of consistenc...
29 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Needs more information

Using the browser's back and forward button to navigate all ICN features

Allow to use the browser's Back and Forward button to navigate through all ICN features for easier user navigation / experience.
29 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Needs more information

Allow activities to be renamed when created

In the case detail "Activities" tab we can have many activities of the same type and it is then difficult for users to find their way. It should be possible to rename / customize the label of the activities when they are created to make the list ...
29 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Needs more information

Reset search in "Cases" feature

When you open the "Cases" feature in ICN, you can filter the list of cases by adding search criteria, but if you want to return to the initial list, there is no "Reset" button and you must reload the entire desktop. The “Case” feature should have ...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Needs more information