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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 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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Search for processes by user/editor name

I repeatedly get asked the question, how can I search for a group of processes a specific person wrote/edited? We need this information for a variety of reasons, such as: - when someone leaves, seeing which processes they created and edited, so ...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

UserInfoCache reset mechanism should be optimized

Every time after change FullName parameter in AD system calls reset of UserInfoCache. This operation generates thousands of DB queries (select t0.USER_ID,t0.USER_NAME,t0.FULL_NAME,t0.PROVIDER,t0.USER_STATE,t0.LAST_STATE_MODIFIED from LSW_USR_XREF ...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

It would be good if the wording of an activity is not obscured when a task type is added, such as 'User Task', 'Decision Task', 'Service Task' etc. The wording of the activity should shift, so that it begins after the task type is displayed.

This would benefit everyone who uses Blueworks, so that they do not need to hover over an activity in order to accurately read what the activity is. It should work by automatically populating the wording of the activity to begin after the task typ...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

BPM ENvironment Dashboard

We would like to see a Dashboard that shows how our environment is performing over the month/6 months etc. CPU utilization, Calls per hours, Peak Load times etc. This is going to be of immense help as we plan on bringing in more users/use cases to...
about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Organization hierarchy for Managers Team in BPM

For current Team Filter Service and Team Retrieve Service, we cannot filter team members for managers team. For example, I want the staff's line manager to be in managers team, the staff is defined at runtime, so the managers team member decided b...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Access required for user deifned resource bundle variables in load&inline JS in coachview

Hi Team, Please provide access to get user defined resource bundle variables in load&inline js in coachview. If we store error messages of application in resource bundle and if we want to do validations within CV(inline js) we need to hardcode...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Meta data fields - Free format text input

There are certain meta data fields in Blueworks which requires users to input free textFor e.g.. Risk Description, Controls etc...These fields are unlikely to be the same on different processes and will start to build up rapidly once we start buil...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Hide / encrypt hard coded DC passwords in the database

Currently today we are required to input a service account password into the UI console of DC for Testing and Simulation RS, which hard codes DC passwords in the database. We are looking for a solution to hide/encrypt passwords and we will not be ...
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Support local group membership on IBM BAW Workflow Case administration

The new feature(P8 v5.5.7) allows defining a security group within the P8 domain instead of defining it in an LDAP directory service Feature Overiew https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/filenet-p8-platform/5.5.x?topic=v557-whats-new-administrators St...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

add parm to arsadmin unload to allow parms be read via alternative DD card

similar to the -V parm on the ARSLOAD program provide the capability for program arsadmin to read parm values in from a pointed to DD card.
10 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Functionality already exists