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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,

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 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...

All ideas

JAR packaged for building extensions and plugins avaliable from maven

To develop CP4BA plugins and extensions developers need IBM Jar-s to compile against.The only instruction points to download them from the runtimehttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/configure-your-environment-use-case-mananager-java-api-ibm-cloud-pa...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

Allow "Instance owners" team for a BPD to be changed like the other "Expose to" teams for a BPD, for example via the Admin console.

Currently, the "Instance owners" team that can be defined on a BPD can only be changed through a snapshot deployment. Other teams that the BPD is exposed to, like process starters, can be changed via the Admin Console. Please add the "Instance own...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BAI support on EKS

Allianz UK is using BAW /Case Manager with Case Analyzer and Cognos traditional on WAS. Allianz is migrating all existing FileNet / BAW implementations to AWS with native EKS Allianz asked for a roadmap using IBM BAI in this environment to replace...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

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 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Customized start page for Viewers

Editors and Contributors can set their preferred page as start page. Please apply this function also to Viewers.
almost 11 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Export function to download list of environment variables for snapshots.

When new snapshot is installed, new values of environment variables are updated.By synchronizing snapshots on Process Admin Console, current values can be synced to new snapshot from current snapshot. Customers may want to check whether synced val...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add an export button to the Project security tab

During upgrades, as administrators of the product, we have a need to track which area has migrated their project(s) to the next version of ODM and we don't have an identifier on the projects for ownership outside of the project security group. We'...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Future consideration

Auto-create fields based on "empty" sample

In cases where a PDF has hundreds of checkboxes - like a user survey form might have, it becomes tedious to define all the fields. The current design forces each field to be manually created with name and type upfront, before you can map it to a l...
over 1 year ago in Automation Document Processing 0 Submitted

Command that returns the subfolders within an indicated folder

In the email, sometimes new subfolders appear or some are removed. So I needed something dynamic, a command that I would pass to it the root folder or the connection and it would return the list of subfolders.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Configurable text / support link in notification mails

Task notification mails currently have the following line included at the end of the mail:'Please do not respond to this message. This mailbox is not monitored. If you have questions about this message, please contact Blueworks Live Support' (with...
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration