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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:

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 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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Export Case Search results to Excel or PDF (IBM Case Manager)

The one thing that’s lacking in Case Manager is a native built-in Export option. Businesses often wish to have a quick way to export their Case Search results into Excel. Currently, they contact the technical team who then run scripts manually ...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Need ability to rearrange columns in search results in ICN

Users require ability to rearrange columns in IBM Content Navigator (ICN) document search results by dragging them left or right. Also, need ability to add and remove columns from search results without having to click "Results Display" button in ...
over 4 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Allow to turn off date localization in Process Portal

Requesting for an enhancement where we can enforce(or toggle if required) the Process Portal to ignore user timezone for dates and always display them as eastern standard? Refer - case TS002970974
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Ability to configure the port using

The ports used the consul.exe of Bot Insight Discovery Services is not configurable. There should be provisions to configure and override the default port configurations
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 0 Future consideration

Getting process instances from production to a test environment

We would like to copy process instance and data from one environment to another. * Extract process instances for a given process from source environment (PS1)* Get that process instances into a target environment (PS2), with the same version of th...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Need to restrict the Delete Document operation on the files atteched to a process from the "Processes" dashboard

We have a requirement to customize the "Processes" dashboard from the Process portal. Our requirement is that, we don't require the "delete document" operation from Documents section. Kindly help us how to disable/delete this operation from "Proce...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

WebService Servers move to other domain, how to simply update external WebService service in BPM end to reflect the change

When using an external WebService service with WSDL, if there is any change in the content of the WSDL, we can always update the external service by re-runing the external service wizard. But recently our WebService Server changed domain and ip ad...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

508 Issue - Page Widgets do not contain semantic headings

Originally opened as PMR TS002789830 Most likely affects all Page Widgets, although 508 testing specifically focused on Case List page widget which is used for Search results. The Issue: Tabbing into pages (page widgets), heading is not read out t...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add resource files to process variables

We would like to use localized resource files in our process models. Alternativley it would be useful to have a app-wide api for this. Like this: tw.system.getResourceByName("name", ("language"))
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

IBM BAW Webservices (Inbound webservices on BPD Layer) are not filtering SQL error when URL is manipulated

When we try to access an inbound web service ( exposed in BPD Layer) with a malformed URL , it prints SQL error to the calling client giving access to database details . There does not seem to be any way to control the SQL output (Potential for SQ...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration