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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.


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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

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Ability to require fields

Process - IER ICN Desktop > Work Area - "Electronic Record Folder" list From - "Process Work Item" window Function - Ability to require fields For - Comment When/Example - Decision = Reject GAIG Priority - Medium Additional Notes - N/A if Rejec...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Records 1 Not under consideration

Ability to configure columns

Process - IER ICN Desktop > Work Area - "Electronic Record Folder" list From - "Process Work Item" window Function - Ability to configure columns for For - Electronic Record Folders' properties When/Example - User wants to view volume close dat...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Records 1 Not under consideration

ILMT without ClusterRole

Hi As discussed in the case TS012233404, we'd like to run the ibm-license-service without a ClusterRole and it should honor WATCH_NAMESPACE, and just check in those namespaces for IBM products. As we have no cluster admin rights in our namespace, ...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 3 Not under consideration

Have location identified for attachments colored in blue in File Management

In File Management, items that are marked blue does not have a location identified. It would be best if there was a location identified so that admin users can go to the process maps, determine if those attachments can be removed so that it can cl...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Rearrange linked items (policies, processes, etc.) by dragging and placing in the correct order

Rearranging linked items by dragging would save time. For example, you have an activity box that links to 10 processes and those processes are arranged alphabetically to find them easily. If you add a new process and then realphabetize, you would ...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

ODWEK: Consolidate folder search calls

ODWEK makes individual search calls to CMOD for each Application Group in a folder instead of submitting a single request that is fulfilled on the server side. For example. if I execute a search against "Folder 1" and "Folder 1" contains 10 Applic...
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

Enabling Task Routes should execute on schedule without restarting services

Today, when a task route needs to be modified, the recommended approach by IBM is to restart services. This requires an elevated service account to perform this action and cost time. However, it has been proven in testing that we can modify a task...
almost 2 years ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Not under consideration

Logs created by Task mining agent does not use host ID for resource name

Logs should use Host ID as this could be a different user
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Not under consideration

Include customizable gamification framework integrated into Cloud Pak for Business Automation

Looking at gamification, there is currently no standard and research shows individual perspectives rather than implementation steps or best practices. The sooner IBM claims this flag, the further ahead we'll be from any other future competitors. A...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Need an option to define virtual categories

We have a use case to split a ruleset into multiple rulesets to reduce the complexity and also to execute the multiple rulesets in parallel and asyc based on the requirement for the same category. We will execute the rulesets for the same checkpoi...
almost 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Not under consideration