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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

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Upgrade BAW \ WAS to run Java 11

Please upgrade BAW to use a newer version of Java. Java 1.8 is very old and does not integrate with Datadog APM \ tracing. Java 1.8 is also very inefficient compared to 1.11. Newer versions of Java would help improve our services to our customers.
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Support CyberArk for secure authentication to ODM

Currently there is no official support of CyberArk for authentication to ODMHowever, CyberArk is using LDAP and OpenID connections -OpenID: https://docs.cyberark.com/Product-Doc/OnlineHelp/PAS/11.7/en/Content/PAS%20INST/OIDC-Authentication.htm -LD...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

让用户可以查询已经结束的历史流程

现在流程结束之后,流程发起者、审批都、参与者都将无法查看历史流程,现在客户要求可以在流程结束之后还能够让该流程的相关人员以及管理员可以通过特定位置查询到历史流程,包括查看详细的审批内容。
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Move File command return new path

Useful to avoid creating many new variables and having to add many commands just to get a simple path after moving the file. To get the new file path, currently, it is necessary to use "Get File Information" to get the file name and extension (in ...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Add new filters

it will useful to have the possibility to filter for: Processes only with all activities in rangeProcesses that are active in the time rangeProcesses that have recorded at least one change of status in the period
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Native Mac Ondemand Client and Server Apps

A microsoft windows environment is currently required for our team to Admin or Develop our application which uses CMOD Java API. Some of our team members use Mac which forces them to develop or run the admin client in a virtualized windows environ...
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Future consideration

list of literal Integers

In BAL, we would like to be able to provide a list of literal Integers in the actionpart. At the moment, a literal number in a list is automatically transformed to a Double in the actionpart of the rule, which seems strange when there are no decim...
about 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Import Activity/Task level attributes data to Blueworks Live via data loader functionality

Currently, the metadata or activity/task level details have to be entered manually for each activity which is a manual intense and tedious job making it a big business pain point and they hesitate from doing this exercise. Therefore, it would be m...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

Improve move/copy of artifacts from one application to another

When copying or moving artifacts, they only bring themselves and toolkit dependencies. If would be great if when an artifact is copied, and it contains custom business objects or other artifacts defined in the original applications, it would query...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Better support for automated testing.

Automated testing would be a great addition to the product. Currently to autotest you have to use external definitions of tests, and call API's to run specific services. It would be great if we could create tests for processes, services, cshs and ...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration