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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

All ideas

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Fully asynchronous ruleset updates

Currently, when a new ruleset is deployed, we are seeing an increase in response times for requests while the new ruleset is being parsed. Make the update of a ruleset fully asynchronous, extending further the current asynchronous ruleset parsing ...
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under 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...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

RDS Oracle EE on AWS as one of the supported database for IBM Content Manager

Our organization is migrating on-premise Content Manager to AWS cloud. As per official documentation, only DB2 and Oracle database are supported for Content Manager version 8.7. RDS Oracle EE is the approved database service on AWS for this applic...
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager (CM8) 0 Future consideration

BAW container Ver. 2202 Need timezone setting enhance for UMS relevant Pods

Consulted with UMS L3, there not document or support setting the timezone explicitly for UMS. We (support and client) also tried configured below Jvm_options in UMS configuration, but it did not work.
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Continuously update execution logs in the Control Center

It would be great if the logs were sent from time to time to the Web Client, being updated frequently, instead of only at the end of the execution. Not as much as to cause performance issues, but enough to know that the robot isn't stuck. Currentl...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Functionality already exists

Enable LDAP Authentication Behind a Load Balancer

IBM RPA with Automation Anywhere currently does not support configuring LDAP authentication where the LDAP request is sent through a Network Load Balancer. I would like an enhancement which would enable me to configure the Control Room to make LDA...
over 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 0 Future consideration

Prompt for Business Unit while provisioning JIT license

When a new user is provisioning a Viewer license using SSO/JIT, they should be prompted for their Business Unit. Additionally, it should be required before accepting the request if account Admin configures it as a required field.
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Ability to apply the property validation for the String Multi-Vallue Property without Choice List

We created both a String Multi-value property with no choice list and with a choice list and added it to a case type. In the case type view property we have made the properties mandatory. In a property view layout we have added the String Multi-va...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Revalidation of toolkit components after BPM update

TS002628799 Current BPM functionality:The validation is performed on a Save operation. Importing the Process Application / Toolkit will result in the validation errors being still around. As soon as you modify aspects on the artifact and save them...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Saved search count performance optimization

Optimize saved searches with business data variables When ever we create a new variable we need to drop the pivot tables and re run the schema generator tool to reproduce the table and load the data .I am looking for permanent solution that help u...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration