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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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Starting an activity (process) directly displays the process UI

Now, the user starts a process and needs to click again to open the process interface, which is fine in Workplace and Portal, but in Case Client: 1. The user initiates an activity (process) 2. The user can only see the task after clicking "work"...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

To provide an option using Decision Center API and RES REST API to specify the custom RuleApp and Ruleset version instead of using the default versioning policy

We have created a new deployment configuration in decision center for which the "Ruleset version policy" is set to "Define the version numbers" . Hence every time we deploy , we set the version number manually depending on the type of release ( ma...
over 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Delivered

Bots invoked using the Asynchronous API without a process wrapper

For my bot scripts, I want to tick an "Expose Bot through API' check box to automatically create a process wrapper to expose the bot for the Async API. This would save me a lot of time.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

When using the get next function, if the user picks the last item in the inbasket they get a message "no more work items" when the dispatch the work item

The behavior where if the last work item is picked, and it reports 'no more items' is the behavior that was inherited from the prior release and is how the in-basket current processes work. If the customer would like it to behave differently, then...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Command "Watch and Set Credentials in Browser" not working when window security name is changed

The Watch and Set Credentials in the Browser command do not work in some versions of Microsft Edge. The reason why is because Microsoft recently changed the window security name from "Window Security" to "Sign in to access this site". With this ch...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Allow JSON Data model Import

NYS Tax has a complex data model with Quarterly/Annual updates , hence it will be cumbersome to utilize the existing ADS data model approach that allows manual entry. We would like to import the JSON data model auto generated by our system into AD...
over 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Delivered

Exchange email connection not working with Office365

• Exchange email connection not working with Office365
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Installing version 21.0.2 using "custom" does not work

Installing version 21.0.2 was only successful when choosing "complete" version. Using "Custom" and removing "Launcher" resulted in an error about the service not beeing able to start in the end of setup
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Access to Shared Mail Folders

The command Apply Search Folder should include functionality to work with shared mail folders. For now, there's only an option to access public folders. For Example, if I count the emails after using the apply Search Filter command to search th...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

IBM RPA to use OAuth to authenticate with Exchange mail servers

Since Microsoft has already started disabling basic authentication in the default security policies and considering that basic authentication reaches its EOS on October 1st, IBM RPA could handle the 2FA/MFA authentication for IMAP and other email ...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered