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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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Redhat Decision Manager is crashing when a rule goes into infinite loop

The Redhat Decision Manager (Version 7.12) crashes because of out of memory when a user written rule goes into infinite loop when unit tested in Decision Manager. We have got multiple users working on RHDM. When a user writes a loop that goes on i...
11 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Not under consideration

Add other flat file types to set_metadata_types action

Would like to add other file types, specifically a csv file, to the action under the mvscan library set_metadata_types.
11 months ago in Datacap 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.
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 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...
11 months 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 ...
11 months 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...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Toolkit dependency matrix

The purpose of this matrix would be to identify which all applications are using a given toolkit for easier maintenance and change management. For large and complex implementations of BAW such as ours with ~30 process apps and ~50 toolkits, it's s...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Assign task to a user from a Team

This is a request for enhancement, In Task assignment configuration we want 1) Assign a task to a given user 2) Also an option to reassign it back to the group. In BAW 21.x Standard version we have 2 options 1) Assign to user: This addresses the f...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Add labels to Milestones and Activities to identify types of waste for those selected as NVA

Waste removal is a primary goal of LEAN for process improvement. As Blueworks Live aligns to this goal by allowing categorizing activities as Value Add or Non-Value Add, it would be good to further categorize the Non-Value Add activity into its ty...
12 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Fully asynchronous ruleset updates

Currently, when a new ruleset is deployed, we are seeing an increase in response times for requests while the new ruleset is being parsed. Make the update of a ruleset fully asynchronous, extending further the current asynchronous ruleset parsing ...
12 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration