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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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Ability to convert a Subprocess in to normal activities (part of the main diagram)

We have raised a request to Create sub processes by multi-selecting items shown in the process diagram, also vice versa , which is , convert a sub process in to normal activities ( which will become the part of the main diagram).
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Support for Map in CSHS

There is a need for "Map" object in a CSHS just like there is a need for "Map" in Service Flow. Even though there is "Map" for selection in "Variable type", there is no implementation for that variable type in CSHS. My proposed solution is to use ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Dynamic roles - Pass secured object properties

In dynamic role only the concerned role name and the user who access the object (document or folder) are passed to the role action. The role action cannot give the access (returns true for isUserInRole) depending on object property (p.e. customer ...
about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Truly readonly Views

When a View in BAW has READONLY visibility it has a disabled HTML attribute set. This attribute causes that the content of View cannot be selected and copied in FireFox which is a supported browser. This RFE aims to either change the disabled HTML...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

Add REST API for downloading/uploading ressource files in ODM Decision Center

The curent REST API of Decision Center dont allow downloading/uploading of ressource files (Excel sheets for Dynamic Domains). Customers may want to automate this tasks (updating dynamic domains) when their content change.
about 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Ability to select API Tester Application in testing Change or Validation Activity

Integrate functionality to allow the user to select a third-party API testing application (e.g., Postman, SoapUI, etc.) in the Test tab of a Change Activity to test business rules. Selecting an API testing application will automatically create a R...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Support automatic retries for service invocations

Support automatic retries for service invocations. Services can be temporarily unavailable or they can timeout (for a variety of reasons). It would be helpful to be able to configure n number of automatic retries for a service in a service flow in...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Split combined documents

During home loans application to a bank, applicant scans and submit ID, account statement, payslip, proof of address as one document. The homeloan assessor wants to automate the processing of splitting the documents and classify
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Add Task instance and Process instance REST APIs to the Operations APIs

Currently https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=update-put and https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=instance-put-setdata are not available as Operations APIs here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=apis-operations-rest-reference...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Include Processes Linked by Message Event When Generating Documentation

Generating documentation (PDFs, Word, etc.) provides option to "Include linked processes (## processes)", but does not include processes linked by Message Events (Intermediate, Start nor Stop). When processes are related to parent - whether direct...
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration