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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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

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

Don't allow Process Diagrams to have the same name within the same space

I am requesting that Blueworks Live make a change so that it does not allow users to create spaces with the same name. When a user tries to create a space with a name that already exists a message should pop up saying that a space with that name a...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Add support for elasticsearch for full text indexing to Content Services on Cloud

This would allow customers who desire to use elasticsearch vs CSS to have that option within the IBM SaaS FileNet version (BACSoC)
8 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Rename of variables in web pd

Allow the renaming of variables over the whole process app in the web pd. Including scripts.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Case Client task in basket reloading and resetting to top

Current functionality works that you always end up in the first page after a case closure/completion, but not in the page from which specific case was opened. It would be much better that after case closure you would end up in the same page from w...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Add support for Unicode characters via the NVARCHAR data type to the out of the box SQL connectors in the System Data toolkit

We have a use case for needing to insert unicode characters into a MS SQL Server database. MS SQL Server supports unicode via the NVARCHAR data type, but we prefer to use parameterized queries and there is no supported NVARCHAR type for the SQLPar...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Unify approaches in generated SQL files in preparation phase

Is there a reason why the SQLs for capabilities don't have a unified structure for all components? https://github.com/icp4a/cert-kubernetes/blob/24.0.0-IF003/scripts/helper/database-sql/postgresql/baa/create-baa-dbscript.sh#L41 CREATE USER ${dbuse...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow for choosing the storage location for FileNet Content Manager thumbnails.

Currently, FileNet Content Manager 5.5.5 only allows thumbnails to be stored in the Object Store database. Even at the smallest thumbnail size, this begins to take up a large amount of space in the database. We have a requirement to generate thumb...
about 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration

Virtual Viewer File Size limit

Add a parameter that allows an Administrator to set a limit on the file size that the virtual viewer will try to render and display. This should be per desktop if possible. This would prevent really large files from being rendered for display and ...
about 4 years ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 1 Future consideration

Extend ARSLSYNC utility to sync more attributes/fields

Using the CMoD arslsync utility. Rabobank would like to include additional attributes/fields from the LDAP (Active Directory), e.g. a special RabobankID that is used for Audit purposes. unfortunatelly such a function is not present in arslsync. As...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration

Add values() enum methods for Excel dynamic domains

Excel dynamic domains mimics Java Enum only in BOM area for virtual classes. It can be synchronized with Excel. It is sometimes needed to get the list of values from this domain to iterate on all the possibles domains.It would be nice to have the ...
over 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration