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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:

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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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Develop Visual Diagram API rest for CoachFlow

There are Visual Model API for Human Service, SCA Service, Integration Service, Rule Service and General System Service BUT : there isn't API for CoachFlow I'd like ask for this implementation, for Process Automating Documentation. Our IBM BPM pro...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Custom PDF Header/Footer

Would be nice to specify a personalized message in PDF print output much like custom headers/footers for Word export.
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Guides for decision center webhook notifications other than Slack

You have a guide for setting up decision center notifications using Slack and Node.js. This is not suitable for all clients though. Many companies use Teams and Outlook, and there is no mention of how to set up these. You provide the Slack folder ...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Guides for decision center webhook notifications other than Slack

You have a guide for setting up decision center notifications using Slack and Node.js. This is not suitable for all clients though. Many companies use Teams and Outlook, and there is no mention of how to set up these. You provide the Slack folder ...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

BAW REST API JSON response date-time format

I cannot specify PMR because it does not accept Case format in the RFE form, can it be fixed btw? :), the Case for this is TS003220320 All the details are in the Case in question but for this particular RFE we'd like for all BAW REST APIs to be ab...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

CPE: Continuous content consistency check sweep for validation of ingested content

Some customers may want to continuously validate their ingested content, at some time after it is fully stored. The current Content Consistency Sweep job is a one and done function that you have to re-create every time that you want to run a consi...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Ability to merge change activities in the Business Console UI without having to create a 3rd activity.

Multiple activities authoring is supported in Decision Center. When 1st activity is completed, and 2nd open activity is trying to update table that was change earlier (1st activity) - source management correctly locks it. This is expected behavior...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Decryption of Encrypted Strings in Datacap Custom Actions

We had written a custom action about 5 years ago which connected to a database via an encrypted connection string stored in the .APP file. At the time, we discovered that custom actions are unable to decrypt encrypted strings: https://www.ibm.com/...
about 1 year ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Sticky Note pop up disappearing when moving from one page to another page in Daeja Viewer

If a document is having 5 pages and user has created a sticky note on page number 1 and user is editing the sticky note and if user wants any info to be copied from page number 5 , then the pop up is disappearing if user moves from one page to ano...
about 1 year ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Future consideration

Recognize automatically selectors

Instead of creating by yourself the selector or use the web inspector to create it, allow Click activities and Type activities (in browser and Desktop) to select the button or field to click or type and identificate automatically the selector.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration