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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

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Add spinning icon ("fa-spin") support to Button View

There is a display/rendering issue when using the "fa-spin" class on a Button coach view icon. Adding "fa-spin" to an icon makes it spin. It is used internally by the Service Call coach for example. We would like to have the icon spin on buttons t...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Web designer click and drag gives ugly results

When moving items around on the Web Designer canvas, lines get redrawn incorrectly. See attached screenshots for before and after.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

To add a feature to establish quality gate, something similar to sonar qube gating for java

By having this, we can ensure the quality of code developed by developer, also to have test coverage , further this also could streamline the process to business user
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Recreate Query/Extractor for decision engine.

We need to create, deploy and execute a single ruleset using a custom application. The functionality must be the same as the Query/Extractor for classic rule projects, but we need to do this with the new decision engine.
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Functionality already exists

Web Designer Code editors need better JavaScript linter

All of the JavaScript code editors in the Web Designer have very simple JavaScript code checking, which means they cannot detect certain syntax errors. This means developers have to rely on visual inspection to assess code correctness, which is ve...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Add support for HTTP Reqest Delete Method with Body Payload

Currently the HTTP Request object for the DELETE method does not support the body info. The RFC for REST does not explicitly say that a body is forbidden. But the IBM DBA Rest API does require a body payloyd for some of its API for DELETE Methods ...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Consistency for DT row comments

Comments on rows in DTs are available in Rule Designer but not shown in DC consoles. This comes as a surprise to most users who start commenting their tables in RD. Feature should be made consistent across UIs by either deprecating from RD or addi...
over 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Planned for future release

Retain Inbasket Filters in Advanced Case Manager across user sessions

Currently the inbasket filters gets flushed out once the user logs off from the case manager client. The next time the user logs in, he has to again select the required inbasket filter property and provide the corresponding value to get the filter...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enabling Kerberos Auth Mechanism in PFS 19.0.0.3 to External Elastic Search

No description provided
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Webhook for rule changes

IBM should provide webhooks to get notified with all the rule details to a custom application when a new rule is created, when an existing rule is modified or deleted. It should be simple configuration on the DC to configure any external REST appl...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 3 Functionality already exists