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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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Provide BWL API capability to support the export of Metadata that would be used to link BWL Process Diagrams to associated BWL Process Applications

Description: Provide BWL API capability to support the export of Metadata that would be used to link BWL Process Diagrams to associated BWL Process Applications. This Metadata would be included as part of an export that can be fed into another sys...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Provide samples to implement the custom Simulation Job Listener

Currently there are no samples to implement the Custom Job listener to customize the simulation data source, we tried to implement and faced a lot of issues. As this issue might be faced by the other customers so it might be useful that IBM assess...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

User unsuccessful login audit

Due to security requirements, we should be able to audit both successful and unsuccessful login attempts to the platform using CPD. Currently, only successful events are being logged.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

Multiple pools

We should have the ability to create multiple pools connected via message connections (dotted line).
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Single site for REST API information in Business Automation Workflow

BAW v20 has multiple categories of REST APIs. There are separate Swaggers for the Ops APIs vs. the BPM APIs, plus there are the Case APIs that don't have a Swagger. This makes it difficult or impossible to find the information you need when workin...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Planned for future release

Count of attachments or export list of attachments to excel file

Count of attachments in the File Management area (ordinal number) or export list of attachments to an excel file would be a really useful option for Admins. Now attachments can be exported within a Space export, but a separate export might make th...
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Fix Dashboards bugs

There are some issues with the Dashboard functionallity, mainly not being able to save changes made to a dashboard or import it (exporting seems to be fixed). I tried saving a change that I made to fix the Log hyperlink in the Monitoring dashboard...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Is a defect

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 ...
over 5 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

Enable CaseSynchronizer to run in "report" mode

Enable CaseSynchronizer to run in "report" mode ===================================== Client reported a concern that, in large installations, they need to anticipate the impact of running CaseSynchronizer tool. client expects granularity of the to...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Workflow Access

Our organization uses the workflow to route process maps to the Process Owners and Process Managers for approval. We use the approval as evidence for our risk and control assessments but only the people included in the approval flow can see the ev...
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration