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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 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...
almost 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Delivered

RPA Support for Edge

We need to support Edge for IBM RPA
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Delivered

Navigation to folders filled in from the document properties dialog

From IBM Navigator, when a document is filled in multiple folders, a user can go in the "document -> properties" dialog, in the "folders filled in..." tab to see all location where the document is filed. From this dialog/tab with the list of lo...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

External integration with Edit Services

A number of users view documents from an external application using the Content Navigator linking API. These same users edit a subset of the documents using the Content Navigator Edit Service. This solution currently requires the users to leave th...
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 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

Support case instances migration

Currently BPM does not support the migration of case instances. I would like to have the possibility to migrate the case instances. This is a very important feature.
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Create menu to open Screen Capture Tool while recording

Currently, only the PrtSc key opens the Screen Capture tool. This is not well supported with current VMware image environment for customer education. As a workaround, we must ask students to open the image in RDP and in fullscreen mode to send the...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Execution evaluator for Web Designer

in Process Designer we got Execution Evaluation to check any data expression it is very useful for quick debug and production support.Could you please reintroduce this feature into Web Designer?
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Increased logging

Strange inconsistent unexplainable behaviour, UI gives generic error with no details. In application logs by default there is not much logging especially for TM processor and builder
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Delivered

Decision Engine BOM2XOM ARL editor needs auto-completion

The Bom2XOM mapping field does not auto-complete entries when using the Decision Engine instead of the classic rules engine.The ARL based field don't respond to CTRL + SPACE so you have to manually type in all the code
about 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 4 Delivered