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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:

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,

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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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Library support - kie-dmn-xls2dmn-cli

We have moved to latest libraries (\bamoe-9.3.1-maven-repository\bamoe-maven-repository-zip-9.3.1-ibm-0006), but "kie-dmn-xls2dmn-cli" dependency was not found which is available in central maven repo (https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.kie...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 3 Needs more information

API access to operations, usage, and performance analytics to IBM Content Assistant (SaaS and Client Managed)

Customer and partners need visibility into the operations, usage, and performance analytics to IBM Content Assistant (SaaS and Client Managed). An API layer offers the most flexibility for IBM, IBM Partners and Customer to integrate IBM Content As...
2 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Task mining - task classification - additional filter (filter by task)

Task mining - task classification - additional filter (filter by task) At the Task Classification stage, it should be possible to “filter by task,” as is the case with applications (“filter by application”) and pages (“filter by page”). This is ve...
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Produce a web based version to work with New Outlook.

MS New Outlook no longer works with the old com add-ins in outlook. They need to be web based and ideal available through the MS catalogue.
10 months ago in Content Navigator 4 Future consideration

Enable BAW’s JSON parser to correctly interpret `0E+0` (scientific notation for zero) in external REST service responses.

When invoking REST services via OpenAPI, BAW fails to parse response fields that return the value `0E+0`. The parser attempts to coerce it into a Long (integer), which Java does not accept in scientific notation, leading to a `NumberFormatExceptio...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Task to be visible to all actors (team of actors) till action taken by any one of them

The customer is using BAW for multiple processes. They have team of actors (approvers) at every step in the flow. Current behavior: When any actor from the team, opens the article from the TODO list, the article disappears from the TODO list of ot...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow the approver in the flow to take action on bulk of items

The customer is using BAW for multiple tasks. About 300 articles are created every day and may existing articles are edited. The flow has many approvers and one of them being the taxation team. Articles created by every department will have a taxa...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Bulk creation / edit of article - Each article triggers a flow

Similar to transaction systesms (like bank), where they allow us to download a template, fill the template with details for multiple transactions and upload in one go. This ends up triggering multiple transactions. The customer is using BAW for pr...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Integration of CP4BA with GitLab and Jenkins

IBM Team, While the IBM documentation currently references GitHub and JFrog as supported integrations, there is a clear need to extend support to include Jenkins and GitLab. These tools are widely adopted in enterprise CI/CD pipelines, and their i...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Tag value should be more flexible to allow REST Response JSON example to handle multiple values for a property

Currently, the IlrTag value is set to a String.Because of this, when setting multiple values to a property, then retrieving this value with REST API: /v1/projects/{projectId}/rules the result is a single string with the multiple values as one comm...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Future consideration