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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,

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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 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...

All ideas

Coach view ECMFolderList doesn't permit to filter the CMIS content

Workflow Capability permit to work with ECM servers through the usage of the CMIS protocol. We are building a CSHS interface that uses the coach view ECMFolderList. Since our ECM is FileNet, we decided to hide some folder implementing the isHidden...
almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

Business Automation Insights for orchestrate

We are considering using orchestrate as a means to perform simple back-office tasks, we would need to be able to monitor from a service perspective the processes performed in orchestrate - number of proceses, types (per business function), number ...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Governance: Process App reporting option to be created & user with edit rights to space should have visibility to task and reports for assigned space.

Governance: Process App reporting option to be created & user with edit rights to space should have visibility to task and reports for assigned space.
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Governance: Launching of customized app into respective spaces only and not into subspace.

Currently, customized apps are launched into all the sub workspaces within a space. This to be curtailed to that specific space only and option to be provided to Admin & user with workspace edit rights if the app has to be implemented for a pa...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Planned for future release

Ability to customize LogoutRequest xml for SSO (Public)

Some Identity Providers may not be able to handle Logout requests when used as SSO for IBM Process Mining. The idea is to have the ability to customize the LogoutRequest xml generated by the application to ensure that logouts are properly handled.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

Desktop and Entry Template (FileNet) ability to filter choice list items

This is useful to speed up user processes by focusing them on relevant content. Example for a search/saved search the user will only be presented with the items from the choice list of document types that his team works with preventing scrolling o...
8 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Decision Center needs to provide REST API based Microsoft Active Directory connection to Sync group users

Currently, Decision Center provides LDAP and SCIM based connections for user registry. We use Microsoft Active Directory as a user registry and it doesn't support LDAP or SCIM. We know that, Microsoft Active Directory does not have a publicly expo...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Decision Center does not have Rest API to Enforce Project Security

Currently, we use the following manual procedure to Enforce Project Security in Decision Center Console: Login to Decision Center Console Click on "Project Security" tab Hover mouse over "Branch/Project" row Click on "Pencil Icon" New popup window...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Allow FDM (FileNet Deployment Manager) using security principals to map marking sets from environment to environment (ie dev to qa).

Marking sets are unique to an environment and this is an easier way to make that association known
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

BPM User and Team Reassignment and Attribute Enhancement

BPM very commonly requires complex user management and routing patterns. One of the most common is implementing a user attribute to be used with a Team Filter Service in order to provide complex assignment patterns for tasks within BPDs. These att...
about 11 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration