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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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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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Conversion utility needs to support additional types

BPM 8.6 provides a utility to convert deprecated items to newer types (for example, converting General System Services to Service Flows). However, the current utility does not support all item types, especially older ones. For example items of typ...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Requesting that Session Timeout Send Users to Login Page

Currently the session timeout in the Decision Center and Decision Server UIs only sends the user to the login page on the first request they make after their session expires. We're requesting that the UIs automatically move the users to the login ...
over 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Functionality already exists

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 ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

View team member's task statuses in Work view style

Work view is a task list where all available tasks to a user are displayed.This is a good view to display all tasks at a glance.My customer requests that:1. User's manager can view team member's task statuses in the view. Team member's statuses ca...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

RDS Oracle EE on AWS as one of the supported database for IBM Content Manager

Our organization is migrating on-premise Content Manager to AWS cloud. As per official documentation, only DB2 and Oracle database are supported for Content Manager version 8.7. RDS Oracle EE is the approved database service on AWS for this applic...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager (CM8) 0 Future consideration

BAW container Ver. 2202 Need timezone setting enhance for UMS relevant Pods

Consulted with UMS L3, there not document or support setting the timezone explicitly for UMS. We (support and client) also tried configured below Jvm_options in UMS configuration, but it did not work.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add write_http plug-in into container images for monitoring

The write_http is must have for my cusomer in Filenet migration 5.5.4 when configuring the monitoring for sending PCH data to Broadcom APM. Here are a response from dev team reqarding this request ************ At the moment, our container images a...
about 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration