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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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Extend cloud ODM with RMI Java Call

In our premise environment we use ODM for saving decision table with RMI and execute it with soap call, we would like to have the same feature in ODM on Cloud
almost 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

To have activity numbered in the Analyse and Playback mode

Currently we have the option to “Show Activity Numbering” in the process map which is not available in Analyse and Playback mode. The requirement is to freeze the activity number that is enabled in the process map for other functionality including...
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Need end-users features added to the ICN HTML tracker interface as applets are deprecated

End users use the Tracker applet to look at the history of a workitem and perform actions such as: · Unlock work, · Terminate work, · Complete work · Assign/Reassign work · Manage Trackers · Open Work Item Applets running in the context of a brows...
over 4 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Customised RPA Notification

The client would like to have a control who receives RPA notifications. For example, like Admin who approves user's notifications.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Needs more information

Filter access for rtsConfigManager role for RES servers

Currently even if group is set from Administration tab > Servers > select a server > Edit server, users of rtsConfigManager roles are able to view and edit all the servers. It would be good to limit certain server information to rtsConfig...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Upgrade BAW \ WAS to run Java 11

Please upgrade BAW to use a newer version of Java. Java 1.8 is very old and does not integrate with Datadog APM \ tracing. Java 1.8 is also very inefficient compared to 1.11. Newer versions of Java would help improve our services to our customers.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

We need the support "Integrating with IBM BAW by implementing a robot task" on Japanese environment.

Integration with IBM Business Automation Workflow(BAW) and Automation Anywhere Enterprise(AAE) is important function. That discriminates IBM RPA with AA and other RPA tools include original AAE. "Implementing a robot task for a basic setup" functi...
about 7 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Functionality already exists

让用户可以查询已经结束的历史流程

现在流程结束之后,流程发起者、审批都、参与者都将无法查看历史流程,现在客户要求可以在流程结束之后还能够让该流程的相关人员以及管理员可以通过特定位置查询到历史流程,包括查看详细的审批内容。
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

IBM Content Navigator, Daeja ViewONE support for hebrew character in mail type document (msg..).

IBM Content Navigator, Daeja ViewONE doesn't support hebrew character in mail type document (msg..). When user download document locally and open it locally the document displayed correctly (without any gibberish ) but when it trys to display it w...
almost 3 years ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 1 Future consideration

Tracking groups do not support complex BOs

Tracking groups currently only support simple variables. They need to support complex BOs as mapping each field individually for a large tracking group is painful and cumbersome.
about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration