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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).


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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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Include a mandatory index primary key for documents tables.

Due to the ability of creating document codes using integers or strings, in the case of a strategy change, the effort needed to include a new index and then fix the created structure is huge. By having a mix between string and integers, the orderi...
16 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Create a document-name column in the database to improve the documents searching.

Right now, when you upload a document the name you insert is created as a variable and this is a problem for Latin languages because we use a lot of special characters. We don’t have a fuzzy feature for the search, so, unless the customer writes t...
16 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Improve FileNet UI and UX

The UI needs to be more user friendly to avoid unnecessary clicks to reduce human error and the time spent searching for documents.
16 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Mask P8admin display name.

The customer needs an easy way to change the display name of P8admin for systemic tasks due to a security rule of never displaying admin users. In the case of a security breach, by having an admin user named in the system will make it easier for h...
16 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Provide some APIs to retrieve separately the important infos available in the XU Dump

Currently one has to retrieve a XU dump, or to retrieve the "DebugInfos" in the XU MBean, to be able to check some of the infos we can see in the XU Dump, such as the Connections. However, if we are just focusing on one part of those infos (such a...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

IBM Process Designer is missing the properties specified by business objects shared in Case Builder

The case builder supports the reuse of Business Objects as Properties. In BAW Workflows (with case features) the use of properties and BO is supported. The reuse of properties is supported but not supported for BO. It's clearly for us an issue, be...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Admin should be able to delete a process and delete a queue as well.

Admin should be able to delete a process (not a process instance) from the orchestrator and delete a queue as well.  the ability to delete unused queues should be enabled, as well.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Email actions such as 'imail' and 'Ewsmail' should have the ability to specify mailbox in case the account has multiple mailboxes.

The feature will help to specify the mailbox in case the account has multiple mailbox. This feature will give the flexibility of selecting the required mailbox.
18 days ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

I would like for CP4BA routes to be able to use OpenShift platform certificates instead of requiring custom certificates with keys

In my environment, the platform team are allowed to use long duration certificates, and have configured one for the OpenShift platform certificate and AWS load balancer used by our Cloud Pak for Business Automation install. We need to use custom c...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Needs more information

Allow multiple uploads of the same document

We have a business use case to allow one document to be uploaded to two different document classes. One document class has a subset of index information, but is viewable to a larger group. Our current solution is to scan the document in twice. Dat...
6 months ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration