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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

Plugin for integrating ibm content navigator with docusign signature appliance web app for filenet repository

There is a plugin for docusign integration but it doesnt cover the use case where client clients have docusign signature appliance installed locally and want to integrate the docusign web app with ibm content navigator to make signing documents fr...
over 5 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Continuing need for ICN Classic Theme style

Deka Bank is using ICN with CPE and document browse / search . Endusers are accustomed to work with the Classic Style. Request from Deak Bank is to not remove support for the classic syste in upcoming releases
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Sweep Frameworkt - Introduce a new SystemField like "SweepStatisticLastModifiedDate" instead of using "DateLastModified" for just statistic updates

We discovered by chance that the DateLastModified of a Policy Controlled Sweeps states that the last change on that object was made on a public holiday, where nobody was working. Policy-controlled sweeps keeps also the corresponding statistics. We...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Not under consideration

FileNet support for Nutanix AHV vitualization technology

Iberdrola's FileNet enviroments are currently deployed in Red Hat Virtualizacion tecnology, the support of RHV ends next years, so Iberdrola wants to change to another virtualization technology, they have Nutanix AHV as the default vitualization t...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Export schedules, computers and users list

For managing tenant. It would be great to have functions that allow exporting all schedules (active/inactive within timeframe) as well as computers and users in the tenant in their respective management tab
over 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

KPI information should auto-populate as a sum to higher levels such as from (L4 to L3, L2 and L1) where the L4 process map is linked to.

We need a functionality where if the KPI's are filled for the activities(such as Cycle Time) under a sub-process should be calculated as a total of all the activities and auto-populate as the KPI information for the sub-process including all the a...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

Add Start Date to TWSearchColumn.ProcessInstanceColumns

We have found that we often want to build TWSearches using instance start date as a value. Current state: We need to either expose a start date variable, or use a REST call to get the start date (not very efficient). Having startDate added to the ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Analytics -> Elastic Pie Chart to allow toggle to display percentage

Percentage is something that is very important in Pie Charts, visualizing the percentages would be something really helpful in a lot of different situations. Currently, we have to enable percentages via Custom Configurations but that's something n...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Task Mining - recognition of task variants

Group user tasks into different execution patterns (e.g., 3 ways to approve an invoice) and identify best practices
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Textual summaries of processes

Automatically generate textual summaries of process analysis (e.g. "Process X takes 12 days on average, 4 variants and 2 bottlenecks have been identified)
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration