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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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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...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support running BAW on z/OS either natively or using a container.

We are currently using BPM on our z/OS systems and we want to migrate to BAW for this. The backend systems that our developers use are CICS, MQ and DB2 all running on our z/OS systems. So we would like to install BAW on z/OS either natively or run...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Application does not notify last login date and time

When a user logs into the application, the application does not display the last login time and date to the user. The last login time and date helps a user to verify that his account has not been accessed by someone else in an unauthorized way. Th...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Input Validation Missing

Input validations are required not only to stop some attacks on the application but also to stop wrong data being processed by the application. Server side input validations are important, when the client side validations are not there or could be...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Ability to keep user preferences for Multiple trigger dates

Process - IER ICN Desktop > File Plans Area - Trigger and Cutoff From -Disposition Instructions Function - Ability to keep user preferences For - Multiple trigger dates When/Example - Claim Closed Date & Last Trans. Date GAIG Priority -High...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Records 1 Not under consideration

Ability to keep user preferences

Process - IER ICN Desktop > Work Area - "Electronic Record" list From - "Process Work Item" window Function - Ability to keep user preferences For - Column Sorting When/Example - User wants sorts to persist GAIG Priority -Low Additional Notes -...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Records 1 Future consideration

Ability to filter/search - Electronic Records' policies

Process - IER ICN Desktop > Work Area - "Electronic Record" list From - "Process Work Item" window Function - Ability to filter/search For - Electronic Records' properties When/Example - User wants to select types of documents GAIG Priority -Me...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Records 0 Planned for future release

ability to paginate by number of electronic records

Process - IER ICN Desktop > Work Area - "Electronic Record" list From - "Process Work Item" window Function - Ability to paginate by For - Number of Electronic Records When/Example - Count of documents exceeds page load GAIG Priority - Low Addi...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Records 1 Future consideration

Ability to add aggregate data- Electronic Record Folders' properties

Process - IER ICN Desktop > Work Area - "Electronic Record Folder" list From - "Process Work item" window Function - Ability to add aggregate data to For - Electronic Record Folders' properties When/Example - User wants a count of Records per F...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Records 1 Not under consideration

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