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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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Allow securing IBM Automation Foundation Kafka routes by customer-provided certificates

Customer is using a CP4BA cluster and a standalone ODM embedded in Cloudera. The standalone ODM sends events to CP4BA Business Automation Insights via the IBM Automation Foundation (IAF) Kafka route exposed by CP4BA. The default security mechanism...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

IBM RPA API enhancement to Bots-related API commands

We suggest the creation of an endpoint which retrieves the last log messages via API, the bot status, start date, end date and so on. This can enable users to have more control over the bots and create custom flows controlled via API calls.
7 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to restrict file types when adding (uploading) documents using Entry Templates

The ability to restrict file types when attempting to add documents using Entry Templates can offer significant advantages to any organization such as below. 1) By limiting the types of files that can be uploaded, you can ensure that only relevant...
7 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Build an integration between IBM Content Collector and ADP/ADP Extension

We have many uses case where a LOB has documents stored in a network share and they need to be moved to FileNet. Step 1. If we could use ICC to process the documents into ADP so that they could be classified and have metadata extracted.Step 2. Pas...
8 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Not under consideration

Cache the Solution information when the Solution is deployed

When a user logs on to Case Client, ICMAPIPlugin GetSolutionInformation is called to get the Solution information such as Case Types and Case properties. When user accesses Work page for Inbaskets, another same call is for Task Properties. So if t...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow re-link of BO types in REST and Web service

If discovered BOs needed in another context may BOs are moved to a toolkit for reusability. Currently isn't possible to change link in BOs in discovered services.
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Let developer decide if BOs should be created when discovering a REST or Web service

If a developer discovers a REST or Web service needed BOs are created. I this BOs are needed in different context they may moved to a toolkit. If developer has to re-discover REST or Web service, BOs are re-created if system can't find BOs in curr...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Desktop PD custom css attributes wrongly encoded in Web PD

We have an application developed in Heritage Human Service (HHS) with controls of Coaches toolkit and wanted to start to use Web Process Designer. When we open a Coach in Web Process Designer and check a control with custom css attribute specifica...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Process App for SAP O2C (Order to Cash)

We already provide rocess App for SAP P2P(Procure to Pay)https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/process-mining/1.14.1?topic=apps-using-process-app-sap-procure-pay Can we also have it for O2C?
8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1

Time-based filter for Swagger "/bpm/processes" and "/bpm/user-tasks" APIs.

Swagger "/bpm/processes" and "/bpm/user-tasks" APIs can retrieve and get a list of process and task instances with instance data. These APIs can get instance data with "optional_parts=data". So, the results can be used as audit data of instances f...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration