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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

Support for SharePoint Subscription Edition

As detailed reports for ICC for MSP (Content Collector for Microsoft SharePoint 4.0.1.16 - Detailed System Requirements) does not list SharePoint Subscription Edition, I opened a support case (TS020807717) where I was told that currently IBM does ...
9 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 1 Functionality already exists

Management Console to provide roles and proper user segregation based on oidc authentication

Currently management console doesn't provide any roles. Any user once having access to management console can perform any action as there are no roles like in business central. Without proper role segregation and access management its not quite a ...
9 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 1 Planned for future release

Request for BAMOE UI framework

Request for BAMOE UI framework, just like Pega UI framework. All the bpm products provide a framework for user interface like ibm baw [coaches] and all products. This feature is currently lacking in bamoe and user randomly creates a framework usin...
9 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Under review

From a PE workflow UI, a user would like to be able to filter multiple work items in the In-baskets by entering multiple values at the same time (not one value at a time).

We have users looking to make their process more efficient, when looking up work items/tasks out of an inbox in content navigator. When in their inbox, they are trying to copy and paste in multiple properties out of a spreadsheet to bring up the t...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

FileNet Content Platform Engine Object Store Key Rotation Enhancement to Improve Content Key Protection and Reduce Need to Reprocess / Move Content for New Key

FileNet Content Platform Engine Object Store Key Rotation Enhancement to Improve Content Key Protection and Reduce Need to Reprocess / Move Content for New Key. What we understand is: There appears to be actually three levels of keys in a FileNet ...
over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

IBM GraphiQL ear build to local install directory

To ensure proper versioning of the generated EAR files and facilitate potential rollback scenarios in the future, it will be useful to adhere to the Urban Code Deployment process. Following this process will help us maintain consistency and improv...
9 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Move Token API should prevent the move of a token on a top level process when there are active token in the sub processes

We had a condition in which a task in a sub process (2 nested level) was in a failed state. We moved the token on the parent process, and this break the execution tree of the process instance causing the process instance to be in an unmanageable s...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow pass thru of sql syntax using some kind of key work start/end structure to allow use of underlying RDBMS system capabilities

While using the search capabilities of FileNet Content Platform Engine, we have found some cases where the delivered SQL API for FileNet limits the capabilities of the underlying database software. Examples include parallelism, top XXX (row num li...
over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to support Complex Object types for custom properties

As an editor I need to be able to create a custom property like Address which is comprised of: Street Apartment City Country ZipCode
9 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review

Provide a mechanism that allows to create custom logic required for properties validation

Properties / Metadata associated to blueprints requires some validation to provide controls and guardrails when Editors are working with these artifacts. As an Admin I want to be able to define the logic associated to different fields that are par...
9 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration