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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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Showing String-type value in Report

For ODM, it is only possible to show KPIs in Report. However, the data type of KPIs are limited. Is it possible to have a function to show other types of data in report? Such as String or Hashmap?
about 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

The Process Summary is a really awesome feature in Blueworks! But, the "print" option is limited and could be much better.

The Process Summary is a really awesome feature in Blueworks! But, the "print" option is limited and could be much better. Why not include it in the available exports? - Word, as a page- PowerPoint, as a slide- Excel, as a tab- Print, allow select...
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Copy paste images into Rich text editor

It is very much requirements from clients to allow them to Add images/ Copy paste / Attach screenshots through ctrl+c, ctrl+v or copy paste option.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add specific anti-affinity rule in FNCM Custom Resource (OpenShift)

We have FNCM Custom Resource deployed in DHL OpenShift cluster. When we configure for more than 1 replicas of CPE or ICN, we want the replicas to be placed on different nodes. It is a mandatory requirement. In the current state, the pod anti-affin...
about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Planned for future release

Tune and optimize resources with standalone runtime PODs with BAW which are not used exclusively for business purpose rather internal functional usage of various services

Summary: We understand following core components i.e. runtime pods required for standalone BAW installation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=cibaw-containers-in-v2103-installing-configuring-migrating-business-automation-workflow The sta...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Upgrade server side Rhino engine to use ES6 functionality

According to ticket Case number TS010336517 it will be very helpful to have more updated functionality (like arrow functions) in JavaScript language on server side.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add Signal Event Type

Add a Signal Event type to current event types in process modeling. Include interim, begin and end events. Also include Signal as a Boundary Event type.
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

The created Case type can be deleted

After adding a case, it cannot be deleted, which is very inconvenient. Please add the delete function to allow the administrator to delete the added case. Although the link below provides a method, it is too complicated, please provide a one-clic...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

A less intrusive way to set script timeout

When we want to define the time limit that a script can execute, we use the red time, either because we need another robot to run on the same machine at a specific time, or because we know that the processing will not exceed this time, and if it d...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

In the Analysis, provide the count of handoffs between swimlanes in the Process Map.

The number of handoffs, between participants or systems, is a metric for reduction and improvement in Lean analysis. A count of the handoffs is indicated by the change from one participant to another and is shown graphically in flow from one swiml...
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration