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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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[BAW ADV] SonarLint integration with IID

We are trying to install sonarlint plugin with IID IBM Integration designer, version 8.5.7, installation fails and IBM support team suggested to raise RFE. Attached document has the steps follow and errors resulted when installing the plugin. Plea...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Rule Designer and eGIT Integration

We would like IBM to investigate the integration of Eclipse eGIT plugin with the Rule Designer for ODM. https://www.eclipse.org/egit/ This would allow ODM Developers to utilize the eGIT tooling within Eclipse to connect to external source code rep...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Decision Center - DC DB Monitoring and Correction

We would like IBM to develop a monitoring solution for IBM ODM on Cloud - Decision Center's Database (based on the Enterprise Console Diagnostics page) to monitor for any 'Check baselines lft/rgt indexes' and 'Check folders lft/rgt indexes' errors...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Send notification email when task status changes to at risk or overvue

This is using processApps. Only when a new task is created do users receive an email. However we would like the option to also receive emails when a task changes status to at risk and overdue. This allows us to use the processApp feature to schedu...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

LDAP dynamic groups with Filenet CPE

We want to have the capability to Manage Dynamic Groups in Filenet P8. We open a case to know if there are possibility to implement it , this is the response of support team was: The question asked in the case was regarding the support of LDAP dyn...
over 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Not under consideration

BAW task Subject is coming in Chinese language instead of "Step: Data Entry" and causes issue as used in getting the TASKID

In BAW the task Subject is coming in Chinese language instead of "Step: Data Entry" value and this causes issue as it is used in getting the TASKID. Please check if this can be resolved at IBM BPM product level as this will impact applications tha...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Is a defect

Request for enhancement on BPM Saved Search to support users not in participant process

Our business is looking for a solution to search against all accessible process instances / tasks, not just process instances with task assigned to their team or tasks available, completed by themselves.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Pdf Option For Process Export API

For the API call …/bwl/blueprints/{blueprint-id}/export… add the option of PDF for parameter Format.
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

OpenAPI compatibility: Ignore additional properties in REST responses

In OpenAPI, when additionalProperties is not specified for an object, the default behaviour is that any number of additional properties of any type are allowed.In typical implementations (for example Swagger Tools), the actual implementation simpl...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BPMoC Process Monitor does not allow user to select a certain node

When viewing the Process Monitor through the Process Admin console, the server is automatically selected for the user. However, there can be multiple servers that need to be viewed. The user has no way of selecting which server they want to view, ...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration