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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,

Post your ideas
  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

Integration of Shared Data Model and Notation (SDMN)

The Shared Data Model and Notation (SDMN) by the Object Management Group (OMG) is an extension of the BPM+ standards (BPMN, DMN, and CMMN) that centralizes and standardizes data definitions across models. SDMN provides a single source for data ele...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Not under consideration

Add hint on Task Mining Agent to indicate the need of ctrl-clicking application

When using Task Mining Agent, you need to select some applications to start working with it. Once you click on the option to select the application, it's necessary to press Ctrl + Click to perform the selection but this is unclear to a first-time ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Import / export excel files via Rule Designer

In Rule Designer (Windows) we would like to import excel files to decision tables and export decision tables to excel files.
almost 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Allow drag and drop of folders with contents in navigator

End users usually upload large number of files and folders in ICN. Though ICN allows drag and drop of documents, users ae unable to do this with folders. They have to manually select each folder (create, if not available) and upload documents there.
almost 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Enhancing a IBM Datacap ruleset to capture additional data to the xml file for exporting to FileNET repository.

IBM Datacap "OutlookMessageToImageAndAttachment" ruleset currently does not stored the attachment name in the xml file as a variable. Unlike vscan it store the attachment name in the xml file as a variable. Customer would like to have the "Outlook...
over 1 year ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Provide App snapshot name in Process Admin

I would like to see the snapshot acronyms of process apps in the list of Apps in the Process Admin - Installed App tab just next to the App acronyms.
about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future 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...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Ability to restrict documents download for specific users/groups.

Ability to restrict documents download for specific users/groups. One of the customer Exxon Mobil had a requirement that some of the documents restrict to download from the application through user/group permissions
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

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

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...
over 7 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Functionality already exists