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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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To list the recently added Meta Data “ Assurance date” in Glossary

We have recently added a new metadata field called “Assurance Date “(choosing the Number property).However we could not find the same listed in Glossary (where we could see other Meta data items mapped as text property are listed in Glossary).We h...
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

It is recommended to provide one-button degradation function

After upgrading CP4BA, if the environment cannot be used due to serious BUG, we hope to provide one-button degradation function. For example, after I upgraded 21.03.ifix16 to ifix17, there was a serious bug that caused the production environment t...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Is a defect

Mapping list variable on error data

TS002444983 Currently it is possible to map variable which is a list to "Error End Event" in "Service Flow". It is also possible to caught the error and to extract object from error object. However, when binding the list, a validation error: "The ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

AW-ProcessCenter-Snapshot-Process(BPMN),匯出檔案缺少<bpmndi:BPMNDiagram>資料無法以BPMN viewer查看,建議加上

在導出BPMN時缺少<bpmndi:BPMNDiagram>這部分內容,而這部分內容正是渲染所必須的。 Translation - This part of <bpmndi:BPMNDiagram> is missing when exporting BPMN, and this part of content is necessary for rendering.
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

backport functionality which was added to version 20.0.0.02 of have execution evaluator run on workflow server

in an open case we had about not being able so run execution evaluator from the web designer to run javascript commands against the workflow server , which does exsist in the desktop desinger. we were told that this feature will be added to the we...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Display current webservice endpoint information

In the ProcessAdmin, If user doesn't input the "override endpoint" field, he won't know what current endpoint is. It doesn't make sense that user needs to go back the authoring environment to check what current value is for runtime. The product sh...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Add SIPOC information as an exportable format

A common communication tool for Six Sigma process improvement project is a SIPOC (suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, and customers). This information is summarized in the View Process Summary menu option. We would like this to be a standard expo...
almost 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Ability to restrict Service Credentials access

Request enhancement to limit access of Service Credentials to specific decision services. Currently Service Credentials are allowed access to all available deployed services.
about 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Content Objects cannot be selected as mappings for an RPA Task

In BAW 19.0.0.2, if you have a Case Activity referencing a BPM Process, then you also have Content Objects that reference the Case properties. If you add an RPA task to this BPM Process, you cannot select the content objects as mappings to the tas...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Content Objects do not support default values

With BAW 19.0.0.2, there is now support for content objects when a BPM Process is referenced by a Case Activity. However, these content objects do not allow the user to specify a default value which makes it difficult to test and debug the BPM Pro...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration