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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,

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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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make the "at risk" calculations configurable in process portal

Current behavior In Process Portal, the At Risk indicator is currently calculated using the following logic: At Risk = (Average Historical Time to Complete Task + Current Elapsed Time) > Task Due Date This approach depends on historical average...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

CP4BA form factors should only install those operators required by selected capabilities

When installing any pattern of Cloud Pak, the deployment installs all operators, including those that explicitly cover functionalities not required by the selected capabilities. Similarly, when installing standalone versions of DBA products that r...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

IBM needs to provide a method for IBM Content Collector (ICC) for SAP to enable SAML authentication with the State's IBM Verify IDP, currently ICC for SAP does NOT support SAML authentication methods.

IBM Support and Dev have been engaged to troubleshoot with the customer. There are no known workarounds. ICC for SAP is working as designed but does NOT support URL encoding, which is required for SAML authentication with IBM Verify SaaS. This iss...
about 2 months ago in Content Collector for SAP 1

Netapp SnapLock Customers are not welcome in the containerized world

There are many customers in the fields which are using FileNet Content Manager since years successfully in combination with Netapp SnapLock volumes. They have created many volumes due to compliance reasons. They have grouped volumes for each year ...
about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 2 Future consideration

Rule Model Extension Properties no longer show asterisks for mandatory properties

Business console in ver 9.x no longer showing mandatory attributes when authoring business rules. This issue relates to properties that have required=”true” as their attribute. The mandatory attributes were clearly displayed in the old enterprise ...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Is a defect

Produce a web based version to work with New Outlook.

MS New Outlook no longer works with the old com add-ins in outlook. They need to be web based and ideal available through the MS catalogue.
9 months ago in Content Navigator 4 Future consideration

Hybrid Solution Fixed Content Storage (Retention) with Advanced Storage Area (Staging)

Enhance fixed content device storage to utilize advanced storage areas for staging vs a localized path / file storage location as currently designed. This would utilize the streaming aspects of advanced storage, eliminating local operating system ...
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Moving the endpoint configuration from appsettings.json to the Task Mining Agent application

During the installation of the Task Mining Agent, the endpoint must be specified upfront and can be modified only via the appsettings.json file. In a corporate environment, editing this file is restricted to users with Windows administrator privil...
about 2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Enhance the critical path calculation for a process with "exclusive gateway" from adhoc subprocess

We got an issue after upgrading BAW from 21.0.3.1 to 24.0.0, that the Batch Modify button in Process Performance Dashboard shows disabled. Based on the investigation with BAW Dev Team, it seems specific to those type of processes with "exclusive g...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Enhancements to the ARSDOC Commandline API

Hi, we think some enhancements to the ARSDOC CLI API would be helpful to anyone who uses it. We've noticed the behavior is slightly differently than the Desktop Application and ODWEK API, it also has a few things that with slight tweaks could help...
4 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review