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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,

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.


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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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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

Sort all workpackages in Navigator worklist rather than sort each page separately

Currently in ICN v3.0.9 connecting to CM8 v8.6, sorting a worklist only happens on each page (for example 200 workpackages/page) separately from the rest of the worklist. This causes users to keep scrolling to next page to find the items they are ...
about 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Enabling IBM BAW navigator plugin reponse filter for filteredservice "/plugin/CaseService" for filtering the Response in Caselist Widget

Enabling the Plugin filtered services for "/plugin/CaseService"(Filtered service Name): IBM BAW navigator plugin reponse filter works for several filteredservices like 'p8/search' or "/plugin/GetMergedWorkListService" .. etc. So for few services( ...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Continue to support the monitoring FileNet P8 function

The traditional deployment of FileNet has the Monitoring FileNet P8 function, but now the Cloud Paks version is gone, and users cannot accept it.
about 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Not under consideration

Orchestrator

Have a webpage with easy url access to be able to explore the status of robots, logs, executions, queues, assets... You can create queues, assets (numeric, integer, credentials)
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Variable types (basic ones)

Add new types of variables, such as integer (instead of number), string (instead of text), boolean, object, dictionary, collection...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists

REFRAMEWORK

Create a reframework that developers can use. This reframework is a workflow with 4 states: init, get transactions, process and end process. In the init one we read a Config file (Excel) that is basically a dictionary, RPA read it and create a dic...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Database connection

Generic command to connect to different database through connection string
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Moving ICM case type and its cases from one solution to another

Hi, It'd be useful to have a feature wherein case type along with the cases belonging to this case type can be moved from one solution to another. It happens due to changing business needs that case types created in one solution need to be moved t...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Customer should be able to specify their SaaS tenant name

Customers should be able to chose their SaaS tenant name. A customer got ONS and ONS-ENV1 for their PROD/ DEV environments which is not intuitive. They are thinking of buying a third environment for Pre-prod. They don't want ONS-ENV2. Please can t...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration