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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

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Separate ability to set user access rights from "Manage and Edit Space"

It is not possible to allow users the ability to create their own sub-spaces, but prevent them from assigning their own user/group permissions. this results in lots of support calls when users or their colleagues cannot see content. Compounded by ...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Allow Case Solutions to be upgraded using the BAW Admin Client

During an upgrade we are supposed to Upgrade the Workflow Servers first and then later upgrade the Workflow Center. Using this process it will break the deployment pipeline for Tradional Case Solutions. New development work won't be able to be dep...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

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

Enhance ARSUSECZ to support CSDATA user proxy processing with RACF groups

With CMoD for z/OS, ARSUSECZ is provided to externalize security to RACF and makes use of RACF CSDATA user segments to assign sets of permissions to users. ARSUSECZ is currently designed to only make RACROUTE REQUEST=EXTRACT calls for "users" by d...
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

ILMT without ClusterRole

Hi As discussed in the case TS012233404, we'd like to run the ibm-license-service without a ClusterRole and it should honor WATCH_NAMESPACE, and just check in those namespaces for IBM products. As we have no cluster admin rights in our namespace, ...
almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 3 Not under consideration

We need support of complex type WSDL in WebPD

The XSD type schema included in the WSDL uses the construct of derived complex objects in many places. It builds a complex type hierarchy where both the base types and the derived types are used in parallel.As per ticket TS002481263BPM Standard ha...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under 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 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

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

Support AIX 7.3 for BAW

In these moment we try upgrade to the last version of AIX in many of our server, that it is 7.3 and upgrade in the same time the application, but the compatibility report mention thet AIX 7.3 it´s not support. For the company is very important cou...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

Increase storage space

Our users have been using a lot of storage space for their process maps to the point where we ran out of storage space. About 99% have been images pasted directly into the Documentation tab and 1% have been documents. No videos are uploaded. My un...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration