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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,

Post your ideas
  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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

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

All ideas

Show custom properties and EDS support for Recycle bin feature of IBM COntent Navigator

THere is a recyclebin plugin for IBM COntent Navigator. However, the plugin only shows the DOcument title and other system properties along with Class Name. However, these detaiils are not sufficent to identify the document as the document is iden...
over 4 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

REST API Constraint

Only GET Methods can be developed with Exposed Rest APIs (APIs opened from BPM to external systems). HTTP methods such as PUT, POST,DELETE should also be added here.
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Restricting access to Process Instance data for Admin User

Dear Team, There is a requirement in our organization to restrict access of Process Instance data to only users involved in the process. From Process Inspector, an admin (tw_admin) user can view/edit the data of the any process instance by search...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enhanced SAP support

IBM RPA should provide full BAPI support for SAP customers
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhance the recorder feature

The current recorder approach is confusing/quirky/unintuitive. No guidance is provided for new users (e.g. for using control key) and the approach feels unfinished.
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

For containerized FileNet, provide the option to completely disable logging to the file system

Currently, the logs for all the components are sent both to:- the output of the pods. - one or more PVC (file system).Due to restrictions/policies on the use of persistent storage on the cluster, the customer would like to completely disable loggi...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Support Dynatrace in CP4BA 24.x

Dynatrace is the standard monitoring tool used across all teams at RBC. We have been leveraging it in previous version of CP4BA as well. There are many upstream calls made before our RuleApps are called in ODM and Dynatrace allows us to get a whol...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

Customization of Blueworks invite basis the Licence type

Ability to customize the content of BWL invite while sending invite to new users basis the licences. Currently we have one common content for all type of Licenses. Instead we can have the predefined template with the customised content basis the l...
about 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Update .Net to a more recent long term supported release (LTSR)

Our DataCap Custom Action Libraries cannot be written at a .Net version higher than 4.7.2 in order for DataCap to use them. Our product is currently targeting .Net 8. While some conponents are shareable across the two version using .Net standard, ...
about 1 year ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Provide a Open API (aka Swagger File) for ALL BlueWorks Live REST APIs, including get OAuth token

Currently tools such as IBM Business Automation Workflow cannot directly call BWL APIs as there are no accurate and comprehensive Swagger files. This makes it very difficult to build a automated QA process for BWL blueprints.
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration