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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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maven replacement for res-write-file

The goal is to replace all ant build task to maven. When unzip the ruleapp, the folder is not recognized by J2SE session as a valid ruleset path.
over 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

CMOD 88 record needs consistency

depending on what causes the failure, the job name and job number that failed is missing. These always need to be reported. For example if the application group name was invalid we get Application Group Failed Load: Name(Xdftest) LoadId() File(/PR...
over 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

API: Determining what changes have been done to a rule from previous version.

Finding a way to determine what changes have been done to a rule from last version. We can see this manually in Timeline -> Compare tool in BC, but, I am looking for a programmatical way to find changes in rules from last version/deployment. We...
almost 4 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Not under consideration

Better support for Data Row variables

The Data Row variable type already exists, but there is no command to get a complete row from a table, for example. This would be useful when passing parameters from one script to another, like in a transactional process where the Data Row is the ...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Hide / encrypt hard coded DC passwords in the database

Currently today we are required to input a service account password into the UI console of DC for Testing and Simulation RS, which hard codes DC passwords in the database. We are looking for a solution to hide/encrypt passwords and we will not be ...
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Admin User List Reports Membership in Groups

Admins should have the ability in the user list to see where the users have been active, if that user is in any groups and what spaces they have permissions in.
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Dynamic Column Reordering

The table columns should be able to be reordered dynamically ideally using a drag and drop capability
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Sorting in BPM

Main Function: The filter in BPM needs to be extended to support multiple column sorting, the columns that can be sorted should be configurable and retrieved from a service with display and column names. The server-side customization of each servi...
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

add parm to arsadmin unload to allow parms be read via alternative DD card

similar to the -V parm on the ARSLOAD program provide the capability for program arsadmin to read parm values in from a pointed to DD card.
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Functionality already exists

Space Documentation visible for Viewer

The description in "Space Details" (visible for all other roles) should be also visible for role "Viewer".
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration