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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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Add REST APIs to retrieve all active task list of specific task including the task claimed by others and bulk assign some of them

The below requirement was asked by business from time to time in different projects. As a supervisor with allocation privileges, he / she want to view all the active tasks of specific user task including the available tasks and assigned (to self...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Collaborating within Process Mining

By tagging and commenting while analyzing, it is good to save the state including the filter and so on, so save the analyze current state and share it with somebody within the organization. The recipients should also receive a message via email or...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2 Future consideration

Get User to Group relation displayed

It is easy to get the information which users are members of a group but there is no direct display showing in which groups a user is member of. A similar implementation as used for Glossary items "where used" showing the group membership would be...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 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

1og4j2.x support in CM 8.6

Customer wants CM 8.6 to use log4j2.x. Currently, log4j1.x is used in CM 86, which is not maintained any more
over 2 years ago in Content Manager (CM8) 0 Not under consideration

Saving Solution in Filenet Process Designer also check-in files in ACCE

When editing solutions, changes made in FilenetPD are not automatically save/check-in to Design Object Store after "Save". The objects show as check-out in ACCE console. The changes are check-in when the solution is commit/deploy in Case Builder. ...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Timeline Visualizer to support large database

We are having issue with their Timeline Visualizer in Case Manager/BAW does not display any activities comments. The root cause is due to the Case History database is huge and taking from 5-10 minutes to load in our back-end. Case Timeline Visuali...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

CP4BA and WfPS - Deploy CP4BA Operator in a separate namespace from the namespace where the workload is being installed

We are installing CP4BA and WfPS at a customer with requirements for the operators to be deployed in a separate namespace from the namespace where the workload is being installed.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0

Support NetApp ONTAP indefinite retention

For a LONG time NetApp was the favorite storage of customers around here (because of simplicity and functionality) but has lost a LOT of momentum as soon as customers were seriously looking into doing GPDR retention which needs EBR as a foundation...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

Include coordinates in BPMN export

We would like to integrate Blueworks Live with other Enterprise design tools that support BPMN.We can of course use deep link but there are also situations where we want to import the diagram as BPMN 2.0 and then design other activities on top of ...
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release