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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 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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Order / visualize views by tag within a category

This RFE is related to the support ticket TS002635333. Since the new categorization of views in the Process designer (see https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS8JB4/com.ibm.wbpm.wle.editor.doc/topics/ccreatingviews_categories.html) view...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Fix Process Designer to filter out control characters which cause issues in Process Center

If a developer somehow enters a hidden control character, Process Designer accepts it and stores it in the underlying XML for the process model. However, if such a control character is present, Process Center cannot promote the Process Application...
about 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Implement SSO Feature for CMIS using SAML

CMIS is being used rapidly to communicate with FileNet repository by multiple client application for content operations. SSO feature will provide seamless user interaction with FileNet and proper security will be applied based on login user.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Indicate links to archived process maps

Can you provide a highly visible indicator when a process diagram is linking to an archived process ? We want our users to make sure their process links are current. Currently, it is almost impossible to know when looking at a process map if any l...
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Collaboration by Tagging Users in Comments, Posts, etc.

Requesting advancement of BWL's collaboration features through ability to tag other users in Comments and Posts. In other words, requesting ability to comment "at" another user or post "at" multiple users. Then, that specific user would receive no...
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

The path for the private key of a computer should be configurable for each computer instead of being the same for every computer in the tenant.

Right now, we can configure only one path for the whole tenant. That means that every computer in the tenant needs to have the private key in the same path, even though they are different computers in different folders. Most people just pick a fol...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Branch info in Process Inspector

It would be nice to have a branch info in process information panel in process inspector once user clicks on a process. If there are more branches active at the same time, processes can be started for multiple branches. When search returns results...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

TLS support for cloudctl tool to connect to internal repository in Airgap environment

Enable TLS support for cloudctl tool to connect to TLS based internal repository in Airgap environment Per Cloud Pak for Business Automation documentation, "Installing the IBM operator catalog" in Airgap environment requires the usage of the cloud...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add notes to IP address lockdown

Managing IP address lockdown would be much easier if it displayed a note against each entry to help the administrator identify what the range refers to.
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

bpmext.ui for complex objects

TS002434977 Let's say that we have nameValuePair variable as a CV's configuration option. Let's say that that context option is not bounded. If we use:var nameValuePairJsObject = { name: "Name 1", value: "Value 1" };bpmext.ui.substituteConfigOptio...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration