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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

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

A mobile app which tells doctors which medicines are new in the market in their specialization

Doctors would be able to easily prescribe the medicine and would not require the need of medical representative. The medicine companies will put their new product in the database. Also the GPS will tell which pharmacy nearby has the medicine.
over 1 year ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Under review

For email notifications to be provided to the person who has launched a workflow task, if the workflow task is not completed by the task due date

This would be useful to remind the user that a workflow task has not been completed. This would benefit the user in being able to contact the approver of the task and remind them of their overdue task. This could work by IBM Blueworks sending a da...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Add functionality to cleanup installation packages from Process Center's database

The LSW_DEPLOYMENT_PACKAGE table grows over the time into tens or hundreds of gigabytes, because each generated deployment package is stored in that table for ever, for no reason. Once the snapshot is installed to process server, there is no reaso...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improve BPM Generated Process documentation to include CSHS and other services

Our aim is to create a support guide for our application that is generated directly from the application configuration data, code and documentation fields. Its important that the support guide is created direct from source as we need it the guide ...
over 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future 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 ...
over 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.
over 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.
over 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

IBM Configuration Manager to support WebSphere's Custom Password encryption

As of today, the IBM Configuration Manager utility supports only the IBM default xor encoding to connect to WebSphere and does the application configuration and deployments. We have enabled the WebSphere(WAS) custom password encryption in our orga...
about 5 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 2 Future consideration

Request to add a search box within the Teamspace configuration to filter documents and folders located in a Teamspace.

Adding a search box within the Teamspace configuration is useful as it enables users to quickly locate specific documents or folders without manually browsing through the entire Teamspace. This feature saves time, particularly in environments with...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Under review

Logoff after finishing bot execution

If I use the logoff command in the script, my execution fails because the execution doesn't expect to terminate my bot and close the user.
about 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Not under consideration