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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

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Resolve separation of duties issue to address compliance issue

This request would be useful for everyone that requires separation of duties for compliance. We have "Business" users that create table changes on a Branch. These branches are then merged to Business Change Branch, then Stage, then Prod by our "De...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Future consideration

Ability to restrict the file upload of 0 kb or a corrupted file

Ability to restrict the file upload of 0 kb or a corrupted file & Ability to restrict the file upload larger than a specific size Corrupted files are accidentally uploaded to FileNet via Content Navigator.
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Be able to run the Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) LDAP synchronization (ARSLSYNC) program on a remote server

We would prefer to run the ARSLSYNC program remotely, with the ars.cfg configured on the same remote server with required LDAP Parameters to complete the SYNC with a specific LDAP server. Reason is, is that the LDAP Parameters configured in ars.cf...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

Enable logging of deployer's username/ip when deploying ruleapps via RES console or Rule Designer

Our distributed team has several specialists responsible for developing and deploying rule apps to Production and Test environments. We do not use Decision Center. Our team deploys rule apps directly through RES Console. Currently there's no way t...
over 8 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Put Text on Gateways in Front of the Arrows

The text on the gateways is always behind the arrow and can be difficult to read. You need to adjust the wording a bit to get it to show more clearly, or move the arrows so there is no arrow coming out from the bottom of the gateway. The latter is...
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 6 Future consideration

Toggle feature flags

The question around implementing feature toggles for ODM came up in one of our problem-solving workshop. There was a request for an update on any challenges to implementation or our next steps. Can we have feature level toggles in ODM? If already ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Not under consideration

View process blueprints in a space as list view

In a space that has multiple process blueprints that have long names, it's difficult to see what the full name is unless you hover your mouse over it. It would be great if there was an option to view the process blueprints as a list so that it's e...
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

1og4j2.x support in CM 8.6

Customer wants CM 8.6 to use log4j2.x. Currently, log4j1.x is used in CM 86, which is not maintained any more
over 3 years ago in Content Manager (CM8) 0 Not under consideration

Change collections treatment in TestSuites Output Excel Report, from columns to rows

When using Decision Runner in Decision Center, there are business scenarios where the XOM has a collection of objects as the input and output. When a testsuite is executed, we have the ability to create an output Excel file report which compares t...
about 5 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Not under consideration

Support NetApp ONTAP indefinite retention

For a LONG time NetApp was the favorite storage of customers around here (because of simplicity and functionality) but has lost a LOT of momentum as soon as customers were seriously looking into doing GPDR retention which needs EBR as a foundation...
over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration