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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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Move Numbering Boxes So They Do Not Cover Arrow Tips on Process Flows

Adding the Auto Numbering function to a diagram will often result in the number boxes covering up the tip of an arrow on the process diagram. This makes it difficult to see the direction of the flow.
about 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Allow Playback to Repeat Steps

The Playback function does not allow you to repeat activities, so we cannot use it when an exception path on a map takes you back to repeat an activity. This is a common feature of processes in most fields. We would like to be able to walkthrough ...
about 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

CMOD merge application group data tables

an application group has multiple db2 data tables. All data except for a handful of rows have been deleted due to expiration rules. These handful of rows will exist for potentially years due to litigation holds or implied holds. Instead of keeping...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

want the simultaneously windows scrolling down function back (when comparing rule differences)

The old version 8.7.1 DC one can moves Windows on both sides automatically when comparing rule differences, but the new version 8.11.0 DC will only move one side. You have to manually scroll down two windows to the same position on both sides whe...
over 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Rule Artefact count per Service/Project rather than for the whole instance

Can the Rule Artefact Count in the Decision Center Diagnostics page be made to show aggregated totals per Decision Service rather than only for the whole instance? For both the on premises and on cloud versions of ODM.
about 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

We have not been able to use multiple monitors when using Studio and interacting with the UI

• We have not been able to use multiple monitors when using Studio and interacting with the UI. This is a limitation because having development on one screen and the application on the other one helps a lot in the process of building scripts
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Default time for handling timeout of running process (so called “Red” time”) has default of 2 min and setting is hidden when publishing

Default time for handling timeout of running process (so called “Red” time”) has default of 2 min and setting is hidden when publishing – very easy to forget to change this.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Email Connection to Outlook - Only able to connect to Outlook when Outlook Window is open

Email Connection to Outlook - Only able to connect to Outlook when Outlook Window is open
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Change collections treatment in TestSuites Output Excel Report, from columns to rows

When using Decision Runner in Decision Center, there are business scenarios where the XOM has a collection of objects as the input and output. When a testsuite is executed, we have the ability to create an output Excel file report which compares t...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Future consideration

Add a flag to Content Engine string properties to store them always in uppercase

It would be very helpful to have a flag when string property templates are created to mark them centrally as uppercase properties and convert them always into uppercase when a value is entered. There is a similar function in entrytemplates for ICN...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration