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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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The function of "nesting business objects inside business objects" needs to be added to the case

The function of "nesting business objects inside business objects" needs to be added to the case. Similar to complex business objects in BPM, those created in case can be reused directly in BPM to improve development efficiency.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

A large Datacap customer want s to add database connection pooling to the product It appears we may be able to use .NET's connection pooling ability by merely adding the following to the DB connection string: ;Pooling=true;Min Pool Size=<x>;Max Pool Size=<xxx>; " We need DEV/ENG to test this and provide support if the test achieves the desired results.

In order for an enterprise application to scale, connection pooling is needed.
over 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

apply icm.model.InbasketFilter after dynamic filter apply on click of In-basket tab

Our requirement is we want to apply icm.model.InbasketFilter after dynamic filter apply on click of In-basket tab. We tried to apply In-basket Filtering after a dynamic filter was applied, but this was conflicting due to wiring on the same event (...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

OpenAPI compatibility: Ignore additional properties in REST responses

In OpenAPI, when additionalProperties is not specified for an object, the default behaviour is that any number of additional properties of any type are allowed.In typical implementations (for example Swagger Tools), the actual implementation simpl...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide an ODM API to invoke Rules Simulation

Provide an ODM API to allow a client application to invoke (or kickoff) a Rules Simulation Job programmatically by specifying the “simulation name identifier” and “simulation property parameters” (this is so that the client application can pass ot...
over 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Add Timeout to the Test Suite comparison task

When you have huge / complex unordered collection being used in the Test Suite, after the Decision Runners finishes executing the scenario, the comparison phase might takes a huge amount of time.As a result, Decision Runner report page gets stuck ...
about 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Change collections treatment in TestSuites Output Excel Report, from columns to rows

When using Decision Runner in Decision Center, there are business scenarios where the XOM has a collection of objects as the input and output. When a testsuite is executed, we have the ability to create an output Excel file report which compares t...
almost 4 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

Enhance BPMoC rest API to allow activation of snapshots

I need to automated deployment of applications to our BPMoC instance. I am able to use the REST APIs documented here https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFPJS_8.6.0/com.ibm.wbpm.ref.doc/covw_bspace_ref.html to export a snapshot from de...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

Include decision model and business rules table when exporting process diagram as a PDF

In process blueprints where decision tasks are used, we would like to be able to see the decision model and the business rules table when we export or print the process diagram as a PDF. This will add value to the overall process visibility.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Need a downgrading process

We do have an upgrading process for PM and TM:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/process-mining/1.14.1?topic=environments-upgrading-process-mining However, for business reasons, such as a function disabled/changed in the new version, a client may want to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration