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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,

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  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

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Provide verbalization allowing to delete tags on Decision artifacts from Decision Center queries

Whereas verbalization exists to add/update tags to Decision artifacts from Queries Find all business rules Do set the property "First Tag" to"Done" for each business rule or Find all business rules such that the tag "First Tag" of each business ru...
11 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Allow searches created by Navigator to include Custom Objects

We need to allow a group of Application Administrators the ability to Edit properties on custom objects. Yes we could give them ACCE, but ICN is a much nicer end user interface, and they are already using it to search for documents. Here's an old ...
15 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Implement a tool for moving case data across existing environments

5 years back we had one Traditional VM based BAW cluster. It was having a few separate BPM and Case applications running on it. System load was quite high, for example CPU and memory resources were running out and making the system unstable and un...
21 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to Set ACL on DocuSign Actions

Current Limitation: DocuSign actions are not currently governed by user access control. Desired Behavior: Implement Access Control Lists (ACLs) to govern DocuSign actions. Users without the appropriate access level should be restricted from perfor...
22 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Ability to Retrieve Combined PDF documents when multiple documents are sent for signature via the DocuSign plugin

Current Limitation: The plugin does not currently retrieve combined PDFs when multiple documents are sent for signature. Desired Behavior: The plugin should be able to retrieve combined PDFs that include the original documents, signed documents, a...
22 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Add additional functionality DocuSign Plugin

Need to have the ability to: 1) Allow the user submitting the document for signing to designate who the recipient is. Does not work in 3.1 2) Allow the user submitting the document for signing to edit the Email Body 3) Allow the user submitting th...
23 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Request to get progress information of background execution

I would like to have progress information and result reports for processes executed in the background, such as deleting branches in ODM v9.
25 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

The ICN stored search displays the Boolean operators between the groups and the individual criteria only in edit mode. It should be visible both Edit mode and while opening normal stored search.

The issue is that, when you create a search that has property groups, as long as the search is in Edit mode by the creator/owner of the search the Boolean operators within the group and between the group and the individual criteria are visible. Bu...
29 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Ability of still using maintenance.admin after enabling SAML

Once you enable SAML, it's not possible to access Process Mining instance with maintenance.admin. This would be a good idea in case you have SAML configuration issues, because you'd still be able to access the product, without running through the ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

The feature of initiating a BPD from a UCA should be available on the same TIP snapshot

Customer felt initiating a BPD from a UCA on the same TIP seems to require a disproportionate amount of extra work. The functionality demands considerable extra effort to execute a basic operation. While this functionality exists for snapshots, it...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration