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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

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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

Enforced TLS for BlueworksLive email

The UK Government's advice on email security includes the following: "Where possible, consider configuring your email service to force TLS between you and the organisations you regularly communicate with." (reference here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Supporting and Certifying Azure SQL Server MI

CIBC, currently using Red Hat PAM (Kie Server 7.13 ) and use Azure SQL Server MI (Microsoft SQL Azure (RTM) - 12.0.2000.8 ) and this is non XA DB. We are looking for Azure SQL Server MI is to be certified by IBM since all our applications use Azur...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Future consideration

Improve the 'JSON to Table' command in WDG Studio and other commands with this function

Today the command 'JSON to Table' only accepts JSON that is inside an object: { {...} }. When JSON starts with an array: [ {...} ]. It gives an error.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Pasting code into WebPD should be validated

If you paste a code from an external IDE/editor into WebPD coach view element like custom HTML for instance it would not be validated by WebPD editor and as such leads to unpredictable behavior like errors in server logs and coach views changes no...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to install BAW without shell BPM_ECM_DOS, BPM_ECM_TOS databases

We have a BAW standard 22.0.2 deployment and we do not use Case management features. We had to create empty databases with no tables as this is a requirement. We would like to have the ability to install BAW without needing to create empty/shell d...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

User name as well as user ID to be displayed when selecting to Modify Multiple tasks.

It appears there are two different code paths for modifying the task for one and multiple,. User will like the experience to be the same as the identification by name as well is ID makes it easier to make the selections.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Ignore error button + Retry button when debugging

Ignore error button + Retry button when debugging – if errors are raised you can only rely on exception handling even when debugging
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Heartbeat feature for computers to see if they are online or not

Heartbeat feature for computers to see if they are online or not and if currently in use and what script is running
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to send message from throw (send) message event to multiple catch (receive) message events in one or more processes

In order for multiple spawned processes to be "linked" via send/receive message events, send event should be able to send message to multiple receive message events in one or more processes. Basically provide ability for "Multiple" event type.
almost 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration