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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 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

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Avoid extra clic for end users by choosing LDAP or SAML

When connecting with SSO avoid for end user extra clic for choosing the correct method to connect when the method is known
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Ability to delete computers, processes from Control Center

Users need the ability to "fully" manage artifacts that they create in the Portal (Web Client), such as computers and process.
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Delivered

IBM RPA - GetTable method for Chromium Desktop Application #EMEA #SPGI

We are trying to carry out with IBM RPA Studio is to capture the data of several tables present in this chromium desktop application using the "Get Table" command. In order to do that we have worked with the recorder tool so we explore the differe...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

We need existing features available in Eclipse PD added in Web PD.

When Process Application users report issues, our DevOps Team use the capability currently provided in Eclipse PD, to troubleshoot and resolve the issues then document in an incident ticket. With functionality removed in WebPD, our DevOps Team wil...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

SSO support for OIDC in Edit Services for Cloud Pak for Business Automation

Actually Edit services does not support SAML SSO authentication, requiring users already authenticated in Navigator to repeat the authentication when editing documents and when authentication and authorization are separated, this may introduce fur...
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator 3 Delivered

Process Task Reassignment eMail notification on CP4BA on container

We are currently using CP4BA on container, our case activities are BPM Based process/workflow. We need to notify the business users that they've tasks to process. In the current version using Navigator/case client UI, the users are only notified f...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Delivered

REST API for deleting completed tasks

Allow the deletion of completed tasks using REST API.The product only supports deleting completed tasks using the wsadmin command BPMTasksCleanup.
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

Add possibility to other dates to schedule robots

Add option to choose a specific date to schedule a robot, like monthly, or quarter (e.g. 2021/05/25). Today we only can schedule a robot per the weekdays.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Delivered

Regression of all assigned work in basket in BPM/task side

On the P8 side this functionality works very well where if the task is assigned to the role other users of the same role can view the tasks assigned for different users on the same role. But on BPM this functionality should be introduced too, as o...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

be able to switch to LDAP group if same-named BPM group already exists (without the chaos that deleting the BPM group causes)

The current requirement to delete the BPM security group before the same-named LDAP group can be recognized is too destructive: • The deleted security group also might have been a nested group for some other BPM security group. There is not a UI t...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered