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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 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

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Remove this issue on future versions.. Cannot attach

I often come across with this error: Cannot attach 'main.wal' to debugger 'net.pipe://localhost/debugger/2/6904/1' I have this message right after an system exception while debugging. After that error it cannot be ran anything, until you close and...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Is a defect

BAW Content Management - Ability to update document properties using JS API while using addVersion() method or a separate JS API

We currently using LiveConnect API to invoke Java packages from JavaScript to perform document property updates. LiveConnect feature is deprecated from BAW 19 version. We are trying to use .addDocument(String type , String name , String fileLocati...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

RES Console to support security config per multiple exec servers

This issue has become urgent as USAA failed a Security Audit, due to ODM RES security limitation. Customer has 5 Rule Execution Servers, each pertaining to different business partners. RuleApps for all 5 exec servers are configured to a single RES...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Repairing the "Mouse Command" Activity more specially "Point" parameter

I come across that this activity its not actually working as expected and I made a simple module to recalcuate the screen resolution. Its worth it if there is not avaiable selectors.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Is a defect

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...
over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration

Project specific modify access should work to publish rule changes from rule designer to Decision center

Today the user who wants to publish the changes from Rule Designer to Decision Center need the administrator role which gives full access to all the projects in the decision center which is a security issue. Users with create/modify/delete access ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Wire labels could be better positioned

When developing services wires are used to connect various activities. These wires often have labels when leaving Coaches to quicky identify which View is triggering boundery event. These labels are currently a mess because (I think) they ar...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Allow clean configuration of XU pool with JBoss console

(from Case TS003025050) For JBoss environments, there is no a clean way to configure the XU pool sizes. Currently, the supported way (and not very well documented) is to modify the file ironjacamar.xml from the resource adapter that comes the prod...
about 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Feature to drag execution line to a previous execution line

Since we already have the ability to change variable value during execution, moving the cursor to a previous line after having its value changed would be very helpful for debugging purposes.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Add Audit Trail to every Process Mining action

Users need to be able to audit every action performed in a Process Mining project. Editing tasks, rules and data sources may have a huge impact in an environment, so for every change we need to be able to track who performed and when.
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists