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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

Provide a Machine Learning Provider configuration option for CP4D - Watson ML

CP4BA - ADS v22.0.2 provides the ability to integrate with a Watson ML configured / running on IBM Cloud. The authentication method for this integration relies on the API Key to retrieve a token to be able to consume a deployed service as document...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

The functionality of bookmarking dashboards is not useful if new snapshots are installed

When a Dashboard is marked as a favorite in the ProcessPortal for a user, if at any time a new snapshot is installed and the previous version is deactivated, the favorite disappears.
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

No warning being send to invited user before the invitation expired

When a user received an invitation to join a BWL account he has 72h to "accept" this invitation.However, there is no reminder being send, for instance 24h before expiration
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Activity Type Icon overlaps activity label

When adding an Activity Type Icon to an Activity Box it can overlap activity labels.
almost 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Extend migration policy to support move token without token orphanization and restarting of tasks

When defining a migration policy, it should also support move token for steps that arent orphaned, to support rerunning added steps prior to the current task. The migration policy should also support restarting of tasks, that currenty would crash ...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add drag & drop to ICN Entry Templates (in addition to "choose file")

Our customer Freudenberg suggest to add a drag & drop feature to the ICN Entry Templates, in addition to the current "choose file" feature to add content. This would provide the user a better experience, similar to Box, where it is easy to add...
about 4 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

Do not display the application related information to the user during error handling

Our security team found a vulnerability with the ODM product. It says application related errors are present in the logs, keep the error messages as generic as possible. Do not display the application related information to the user during error h...
almost 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to specify multiple database types when using scripted installation

CP4BA supports multiple database types (e.g. Oracle, DB2, etc.), but some applications (e.g. ADP) do not support all database types. My customer mandates Oracle where possible. This means that when installing both FNCM and ADP, we have to use Orac...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Serialize session data is not supported in ODM. Customer needs support for this in ODM v8.11.1 DC.

At the current moment, serialize session data is not supported with ODM v8.11.1 in DC, and it is due to the enablement of the database session persistence within a client's server.xmlPlease see the WAS configuration set that causes this issue : ht...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Using startRecording command on VM with RDP not active

We want a new feature for the "Start Recorder" command. Where the command can record a video for a script that was schedule using the Unlock Machine On, with always On enabled.For now the only way to make this command works is when the RDP connect...
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration