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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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Detect whether deprecated feature is used and then show in “Validation Errors" in Web PD

The use of deprecated feature may cause some production issue. We would like to highlight the deprecated feature and detect whether deprecated feature is used in BPM app (especially after upgrading/migration) and then show it in “Validation Errors...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Changing Context Root of Case Manager Components, such as ICMClient

Currently we are not able to change ICMClient context root. The context root is hardcoded in some java scripts. If we change the context root in WAS console, the hardcoded context root in the javascripts won't be changed and then Case Manager appl...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

CP4BA BAW needs to meet performance requirement in a headless system orchestration with scaling with containers

CP4BA BAW needs to meet performance requirement in a headless system orchestration with scaling with containers.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

userid/password that connects to a CMIS server are stored using AES encryption with hard-coded key in an environment variable

The userid and password of a system account that connects to a CMIS server are stored using AES encryption with hard-coded key in an environment variable. Remmendard Actions from HSBC Security team: Secure storage of cryptogrphic secrets; (Separat...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BO Changes and instance migration

When BO properties are deleted/renamed in-flight instance migration results in failures/error due to mismatch in properties in task/instance context data and the BO definition in the target snapshot version. Proposal - log the mismatch as a warnin...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Put Text on Gateways in Front of the Arrows

The text on the gateways is always behind the arrow and can be difficult to read. You need to adjust the wording a bit to get it to show more clearly, or move the arrows so there is no arrow coming out from the bottom of the gateway. The latter is...
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 6 Future consideration

Option required to include " Date" property along with Calendar option under Custom Process Properties

In Blue works live, we have options to include new text & number properties. How ever, we do not have option to include date properties (with calendar option). This data is essential for almost all the diagrams as we capture these details for ...
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Propagate rule engine properties across branch/release merges

When testing with Excel spreadsheets, our ruleapp requires that the "Automatic exception handling in conditions" rule engine flag be set. Unfortunately, when a branch is merged, either to another branch or a release change activity, this flag is l...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Improve identity management integration

To have full Identity access managment management similar to other IBM solutions already in uso in ur envirnment( ENEL), it would be necessary to add other API services (or alternatively a model based on active directory groups): • Management of ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2

Easy way to customize/extend web.xml for res on kubernetes

We need to define an additional decision-datawarehouse in the res. As we have installed the management-console in our own kubernetes we need an easy way to customize/extend the corresponding web.xml of the res.war to add the needed additional cont...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration