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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:

Search existing ideas

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,

Post your ideas
  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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

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

All ideas

Allow admin to globally prevent user amending their email and business unit

We use the Business Unit flag to allocate users costs to specific cost centres Currently, the user can edit that data at any time which breaks our cost allocation reporting Please can you add a admin option to make this data read only for the user...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 5 Planned for future release

An Efficient way to pause in bulk a bunch of different instances

We had the need to pause all the process instances related to a single BPD process definition (BPMn) due to the maintenance of a remote server used by them. We had more that 150k instances running only on that process application. We tried to use ...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to retain column re-sort and re-sizing in Workplace

In the Heritage Portal, a user was able to resort columns, claim a task and return to the saved search list. When they returned, the columns still maintained the sort that was in place prior to claiming the task. In the new Responsive Portal, the ...
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Reinstate Auto color detection in Datacap v9.1.8

Auto Color detection during functionality missing in Datacap v9.1.8. This is available in v9.0 Problem statement: Our image center resources will be scanning high volume of documents both color and Black&white (gray). After scanning they uploa...
almost 5 years ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Integration of IBM BAW BPEL with IBM Transformation extender maps over RestAPI - OpenAPI 3.x using REST import binding

Integration of IBM BAW BPEL with IBM Transformation extender maps over RestAPI - OpenAPI 3.x using REST import binding. Background: We used to integrate BAW with IBM ITX through mediation modules, as mediation modules used to have ITX primitive to...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

IBM BPM Teams Enhancement

IBM BPM 'Teams' cannot be shared easily across multiple process applications unlike groups (which got deprecated ~IBM BPM v8.0 timeline. These Teams unlike groups , are tied to snapshots and have unique db record for each snapshot they are belong ...
over 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Defaulting and Filtering for ICN Simple Search

Defaulting Search on Document Class instead of Object Store Right now, when using the ICN Simple Search Feature, you are allowed to select from a list of Object Stores that you want to perform your search in. We are wondering if it can allow us to...
about 4 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

ODM native support for password vault integration (ex. CyberArk)

Currently, ODM requires passwords to either be hardcoded or injected on deployment. This has resulted in some custom code on our side because we aren't able to have ODM make a call to CyberArk using an Alias to retrieve the service account/passwor...
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Provide a java class/method that can create a teamspace based on a template, usable from an event handler or navigator service

It appears most/all of the code to create teamspaces is embedded in Content Navigator. That requires someone to navigate a UI to create a teamspace. This idea is to provide a simple Java entry point that takes a teamspace template and allows you t...
10 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

JBPM - Control Registration of TaskCleanUpProcessEventListener

Hello all, We are looking for a way in order to be able to control the registration of TaskCleanUpProcessEventListener which causes unnecessary database queries. Open source code reference at link :: JbpmKieServerExtension.java Currently the only ...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Future consideration