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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 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
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...

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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

allow export of application group to exclude export of applications

we try to keep our environments clean and only contain objects that are needed in that specific environment. We we like a check box on the application group export function that would allow us to turn off export of applications to the destination ...
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Close browser/ Close process improvement

It was verified that the commands "Close browser" and "Close Process" does not work in all scenarios, there are some cases that they don't work as intended. The browser and/or process kept running. As a workaround, the command taskkill /f /im chro...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

We need to handle deactivate condition cell merging on download decision table from DC

Right now in IBM ODM "We do not handle deactivate condition cell merging on download decision table, only processing it after re-upload in DC". It's good if IBM can provide deactivate condition cell merging on download also.
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

"teamworks.Mail" allows "," as a part of file name of several attachment files.

"teamworks.Mail" don't allows "," as a part of file name of several attachment files. If "teamworks.Mail" is able to use "," as a character in the file name, it will improve the convenience of using "teamworks.Mail".
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 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...
about 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

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

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...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

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.
over 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future 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...
almost 2 years ago in Enterprise Records 1 Not under consideration