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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

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Not Contains filter option for saved searches

Our internal business customer would like to filter saved searches by NOT contains rather than just Contains. I think they want to search tasks by various critera and then say that the task does not contain the word Build.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow PDF Indexer to Split Bookmark Resource

Large PDF reports generated upstream contain many recipients. For each recipient, there are many pages and sections. The PDF bookmark resource displays each recipient and within each recipient, their own sections. Currently CMOD only allows a All ...
over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

Audit trail of all activities on IBM RPA

Due to statutory requirement, we are required to keep the audit trail of all activities performed by any administrators / users in the tool, including Date/Time, Host IP, User ID, Property / Item on which action performed, Action performed, Value ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists

ODM SMF 120 subtype 100 - set SMF120FLG bit 1 (SMFHDR_FLG) indicate subtype value for 100

We request that the WAS ODM SMF 120 subtype 100 data-recording be amended to include the IBM-standard SMF main-header bit-1 setting to denote that "subtype is valid". Consider that the WAS SMF 120 subtype 9 record applies to this standard.The IBM ...
about 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Provide default permission management functions for each started case instance

The permission logic used by case should come from acce. After authorizing the role permission in case, all users under the role can access each case instance by default, which will lead to data insecurity. In real work, the cases added by users d...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The default view in BPM continues to be valid

How to create a view in BPM? The default view will fail, that is, the user must use the created view. Even if the user innovates the view, the previous default view is used by default, and the contents in the new view cannot be edited. We believe ...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Order / visualize views by tag within a category

This RFE is related to the support ticket TS002635333. Since the new categorization of views in the Process designer (see https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS8JB4/com.ibm.wbpm.wle.editor.doc/topics/ccreatingviews_categories.html) view...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

CMOD - admin client compare option for ODF objects

provide object compare capability to all odf objects similar to that provide to non odf objects
over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

cmod do not allow oam storage set assignment for application group that is expire type segment

when an application group is assigned to a storage set that was initially cache only and then a storage node for oam is added and marked for load data....... arsmaint is expiring the cmod indexes, but not the oam directory rows or oam objects. thi...
over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 7 Not under consideration

CMOD new message when new db2 table created

A new message type is written to the system log when cmod dynamically allocates a new application group data table. It should have the standard date/time, the name of the application group and the specific db2 table name created. Why this is impor...
over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration