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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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Attachments size limit

My idea is to introduce an option to set an attachment size limit, so the account Admin can specify how many kB can have an attachment. It could be a part of account Customization in the Admin area.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Provide REST RES API or ant task to collect XUDump

Customers need the ability to collect XU dumps via REST API or Ant task programmatically. This is typically needed for performance tuning and debug and the current manual interface does not provide the ability to do so within a short interval of t...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Add row to the table with no side effects like onChange event triggered without a reason

This is a request to simply the adding of rows to a table without the triggering of the onChange event without a reason For a simple use case where a data needs to be added to a table, you need: * a temporary variable to copy the content of the ta...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Future consideration

Enhance search filter for group retrieval to reduce latency during LLLDAP authentication

Due to the way Datacap handles group retrieval during authentication we experience significant latency during LLDAP authentication for users who are members of many groups. Indeed, Datacap uses a global LDAP chain (for LLDAP authentication) but it...
almost 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Show custom properties and EDS support for Recycle bin feature of IBM COntent Navigator

THere is a recyclebin plugin for IBM COntent Navigator. However, the plugin only shows the DOcument title and other system properties along with Class Name. However, these detaiils are not sufficent to identify the document as the document is iden...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Allow use of Windows Auth for managing On-Prem database.

Right now only SQL auth is supported for managing and installing on prem database. Due to security concerns, using SQL auth is not always supported within enterprises.
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Provide full MSAA support for windows controls, or not at all

IBM RPA only provides partial MSAA support for windows control operations. MSAA addressing for windows controls & UI elements is used by some competing products.
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Create Ability to control permissions related to BWL Glossary

Requesting a feature that allows BWL Admins to dictate which account users can create new Glossary values. Currently Contributors/Editors can type in items, and if there are typos or extra spaces, it will create two separate terms. We are requesti...
11 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Case Builder to delete solution properties from runtime configuration

Currently when a solution designer deletes a solution property in Case Builder, the property is only deleted from the solution definition. The property stays available in the runtime data. This behavior is not intuitive for developers and business...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BAW Content Management - Ability to update document properties using JS API while using addVersion() method or a separate JS API

We currently using LiveConnect API to invoke Java packages from JavaScript to perform document property updates. LiveConnect feature is deprecated from BAW 19 version. We are trying to use .addDocument(String type , String name , String fileLocati...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration