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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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Concurrent Access on Decision Table for Editing should not be allowed via Decision Center API

We have a utility exposed that leverages Decision Center APIs to fetch and update data within a decision table and deploy on RES for one of our decision services. This utility is exposed and used by multiple clients. We've observed that when we re...
about 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Sort all workpackages in Navigator worklist rather than sort each page separately

Currently in ICN v3.0.9 connecting to CM8 v8.6, sorting a worklist only happens on each page (for example 200 workpackages/page) separately from the rest of the worklist. This causes users to keep scrolling to next page to find the items they are ...
about 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Moving ICM case type and its cases from one solution to another

Hi, It'd be useful to have a feature wherein case type along with the cases belonging to this case type can be moved from one solution to another. It happens due to changing business needs that case types created in one solution need to be moved t...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Customer should be able to specify their SaaS tenant name

Customers should be able to chose their SaaS tenant name. A customer got ONS and ONS-ENV1 for their PROD/ DEV environments which is not intuitive. They are thinking of buying a third environment for Pre-prod. They don't want ONS-ENV2. Please can t...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Improve the Weekly Activity changes notifications

The administrators of a BWL account can register to receive weekly mails about the activities that were performed on the account during the week.However, some improvements could be implemented with regards to this feature: 1) When there is no acti...
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Script Adapter can save as file and import/reuse able.

Issue:Script Adapters cannot be reused, as a result, we need to copy and paste every time Idea: Script Adapter can save as file and import/reuse able.
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The change of Script Adapter can submit to the target object and be effected on the page after click a button

The change of Script Adapter can submit to the target object and be effected on the page after click a button User case: User change the java script in the script Adapter, then save solution User click the transform the java script
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to launch a process app across multiple processes

Our team are starting to use Process Apps within Blueworks Live to assign workflows and tasks to users (mainly to create a reminder to review a process). However, we would need to launch these within each individual process, it would be useful to ...
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Add image and table into Dialog control

Through the Dialog Control I wanted to add a popUp in the coach. I inserted an image but this image didn't appear in the popup. It only accept the title and subtitle, buttons. I believe that some image should be useful to be shown for example (war...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support Kerberos authentication for component manager nor DBExecute accounts in Content Engine

Kerberos is a standard mechanism for authentication for many users of FileNet Content Engine
about 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration