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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.


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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

All ideas

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Functionality to delete User Groups in archive

User groups are created as per the business requirement to have the control on access level of the space content. If the user group is no longer required, we are able to archive the user group. However, there is no option to delete the user group ...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Add a threshold metric to BAW Process Admin Console alerting definitions, for process instance steps

The Process Admin Console for BAW enables definition of runtime alerts for Process Instances or Tasks, based on various metrics.In the Process Monitor there is a metric being captured for the number of times a step is executed in a process instanc...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

FileNet Salesforce Connector - Enhancement to “Add Document Dialog” page

They would like to set the default or preset value in each property on the page. This could be done using Property Defaults on Content Platform Engine. I mentioned that on the call yesterday however they would like to have these defaults / preset ...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Ability to temporarily suspend IP address lockdown without losing configuration

At present IP address lockdown has no memory; i.e. if you temporarily switch it off for what ever reason you lose all the settings and need to retype them instead of just switching back on.
about 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

View thumbnail of multiple documents

In IBM content navigator for FileNet, the embedded Daejae viewer currently only has a tab view of multiple documents but does not have a thumbnail view of multiple documents. Our client processing center would like to seek the feature enhancement ...
about 5 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

Add ActivityID to Process Items Tab of Export

In the Excel export, add the activityID to the Process Items tab. Alternatively, at least make the same capability available in an API.
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Do not close browse window in Outlook Plug-in when opening and closing an archived mail

As a user I want to open an archived mail. From Outlook, I open the ICN Outlook-Plugin browse window, navigate through the folder structure to my archived mail and open in. The mail is opened in a separate Outlook-Window and in the background (in ...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Loop detection. Rules loops that cause memory overloads should shut down gracefully

When creating a rules project that calls another rules project, but accidentally gets called back you end up in an endless loop. This loop causes a memory overflow which crashes the server. It would be better if an error is thrown so that the deve...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Not under consideration

Improvement for TwSearch functionality in IBM BPM. Need to be able to find all instances regardless of task status

TwSearch functionality in IBM BPM is only fully functional for administrators. Regular users, i.e. case workers, might be misled by information from dashboards as they don't get to see some of the instances. Process instances are only visible if t...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Multiple pools

We should have the ability to create multiple pools connected via message connections (dotted line).
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration