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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

Case Client task in basket reloading and resetting to top

Current functionality works that you always end up in the first page after a case closure/completion, but not in the page from which specific case was opened. It would be much better that after case closure you would end up in the same page from w...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Option to disable mobile download/sharing/print on IBM Navigator Mobile

This request came from a customer in the public sector industry in which users on navigator mobile application should not be allowed to download content from FileNet to their local storage device. This is considered a security risk for my customer...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 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...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enhancement of the REST-API to filter rules based on metadata

We use the REST interface to display rules and tables from the Decision Center in the customer's standard applications. Only a certain part of the rules is of interest, never all of them. Therefore, only those rules that are relevant should be ret...
about 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Functionality already exists

Moving Text on Gateways, Events and Links

I would like the flexibility to move the external test for gateway, events or links to align with top, bottom, left or right of the item. Currently, the text appears below the item and cannot be moved.
about 10 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Description popup for Participant

Just like popups all over BwL, it would be nice to have a popup with the description for Participant when viewing Process Diagram/Map/etc. This would be helpful when it's necessary to abbreviate Participant names (like System as a Participant).
about 10 years ago in Blueworks Live 5 Functionality already exists

Custom PDF Header/Footer

Would be nice to specify a personalized message in PDF print output much like custom headers/footers for Word export.
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Provide documentation on release containers images

Helps customer plan ahead for release upgrades. Customer is asking for official documentation on each upcoming release that lists container images files names/digests, sizes, and versions without requiring customer to download images from the icr....
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Add values() enum methods for Excel dynamic domains

Excel dynamic domains mimics Java Enum only in BOM area for virtual classes. It can be synchronized with Excel. It is sometimes needed to get the list of values from this domain to iterate on all the possibles domains.It would be nice to have the ...
almost 4 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

Allow Unfiled Documents in IBM CMIS 1.0

We are forced to downgrade from CMIS 1.1 to 1.0 in order to avoid using the Apache OpenCMIS which has been sunsetted by Apache. Almost all of our documents are currently uploaded without adding them to a folder. This is not supported by CMIS 1.0 a...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Under review