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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...

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Multiple endpoints should be allowed to connect to same next step in Parent service like eclipse Process designer

We have hundreds of toolkits and PA in environment where sometime multi end points in some common toolkits services need to connect to same next step in parent(implementor) service. This is valid business case for many Authors and common toolkits....
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support for Huawei S3 storage

We want to migrate from a 'Traditional Content Platform Engine' to a 'Containerized Content Platform Engine' environment. There is need to store our documents on a S3 storage solution. Our (on premise) S3 storage solution is based on Huawei Storag...
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Add a REST endpoint to retrieve a rule analysis report from the Decision Center

Through a REST endpoint, we want to generate reports (similar to those already available within the Rule Designer) and forward them to the respective departments. The entire process would then be a fully automated solution without user interaction.
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

As a business user, I would like to be able to perform rule analysis in the decision center

To enhance the quality of our services, we need analysis capabilities similar to those already available with the Rule Designer
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Disable the administrator's ability to view and edit task data on Instance level

PROCESS INSPECTOR IN PROCESS ADMIN CONSOLE ALLOWS ADMINISTRATORS TO ACCESS and EDIT PROCESS INSTANCE DATAProcess Inspector on the Process Admin Console allows administrators to access and edit instance data on level of process instances and task i...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Use a newer version of Javascript in BAW

JAVASCRIPT ES5 is currently used by BAW. In order to manage sequential calls and integrate client javascript modules, we'll need to use a newer version of Javascript
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

See task details of a task assign to my teammates

As a simple member of a team (no manager), I want to see all the tasks of the team (even those who are assigned to other users). I also want to see task detail of tasks assigned to a teammate (no actions available, but information displayed)
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Search tasks according to functional metadatas

We need a REST API that allow to search BPM process tasks according to functional metadatas that are declared on tasks. For now, we are juste able to find, calling REST API, processes and then loop on all tasks of this process.
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Make it possible to set TaskAtRiskDate

Our customer is using the TaskAtRiskDate to determine which tasks needs to get immediate attention.A task at risk date which is calculated with historical duration of other tasks is useless for them.This needs to be calculated by logic which can d...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add REST API (+ ANT Tasks) to delete Groups and Users from the Business Console users registry

When you use the DC REST APIPOST /v1/repository/users-roles-registryto add a new user to the existing list, it worksYou can then see that user in the BC Console Administration / Users tabBut unfortunately you have no APIs to remove users / groups ...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review