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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 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...

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Functionality to cut/copy past Images to Rich text area

Current Rich text area don't have the cut/copy pages that is adding more work to the users who recently migrated to BPM.Salient has added this features in the new toolkit and provided to us directly. But that is not part of BPM 8.6 product yet. Co...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Should be add the advanced level on IBM academy in portuguese to become more accessible for people that are not capable of learning new subjects in another language.

More people would be able to learn how to use the IBM RPA
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Script Adapter can save as file and import/reuse able.

Issue:Script Adapters cannot be reused, as a result, we need to copy and paste every time Idea: Script Adapter can save as file and import/reuse able.
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The change of Script Adapter can submit to the target object and be effected on the page after click a button

The change of Script Adapter can submit to the target object and be effected on the page after click a button User case: User change the java script in the script Adapter, then save solution User click the transform the java script
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

DE: Add the functions (.fct) in debug ruleset.arl file

all the function code (.fct files) should be added to ruleset.arl file which is important for debugging
almost 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Support Kerberos authentication for component manager nor DBExecute accounts in Content Engine

Kerberos is a standard mechanism for authentication for many users of FileNet Content Engine
almost 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Support Java2 Security for FileNet Content Manager within WebSphere.

Currently Java2 Security is disabled to make FileNet Content manager run on WebSphere.
almost 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration

Changes during DEBUG mode

While stepping in, be able to add, delete, modify command/line, change variables and manually jump to any line. Similar to "Set Next Stage" in Blue Prism.
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Blueprints/{blueprint-id} API to return custom activity numbering in JSON

Our team uses Blueworks Live for custom process modelling on behalf of clients. Some of this requires generating custom Blueprint documentation using the data from the Blueworks Live API. This documentation is generated on-demand and uses the Blue...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Shortcut to Step logs in Process Orchestration

In Process Orchestration, the tab "Execution flow" could have a direct link to the execution log of each Step of the instance. I believe this was available in the previous version of the interface and saved a lot of time when trying to find logs c...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration