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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

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Default values getting wiped out

Any Heritage coaches if opened in Web PD, the 'has defaults' in the GSS/SF that is invoked in Heritage coach should be retained. It gets wiped out.
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Allow resource tagging

During the process/user/organization/tenant creation it would be nice to tag these resources and have integration APIs to retrieve resources by specific tags. This can be seen as an additional list of String tags to be added to processes and diffe...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Future consideration

Unique Naming for Downloaded and Exported Files

When downloading files from the tool. The file names should be unique where the content is unique. Request is to add Diagram and Documentation to the file names. Example: (Process Name) Diagram.(xxx) and (Process Name) Documentation.(xxx). Current...
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

When displaying reports under report section, it would be great if we enable URL field value as link.

We have a URL field in Tririga, and it can be added to a report. However, when we display it in the report section, is it possible to make the URL value as a link, so that the user may go directly to the URL instead of opening the record?
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Snapshot Process Review & Approval enhancement

currently in our business for process owners to approve documents we use the snapshot review and approval tool. This can be very time consuming when a process owner has multiple process maps as we have to create a snapshot of each map individually...
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

URL for artifacts in BAW application

It would be nice to have a link to an artifact in BAW application. This would enable developers to bookmark artifacts, share URL(s) with colleagues and so on.
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Build a Z OS Connector - the transactional cores of IBM

This connector is crucial for financial entities. Most IBM FSI Clients have Z OS and it would be very useful to have a connector to extract that data.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Future consideration

CHANGE REQUEST - Interface WorkBasketDefinition

Our team uses the interface WorkBasketDefinition to users management in the workbaskets. However, we have a time out problem when the workbasket has a big list of users. The effort is large but we hope to do this in a future release as explained h...
over 11 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 7 Not under consideration

During process design and debugging, you can see the log like eclipse development

When eclipse develops Java program debugging, you can directly see the log below. It is suggested that BPM process design also has such a function, and you can directly see the output log.
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Oracle DB Support AL16UTF16 character set for BPM NCHAR character set

support NCHAR character set AL16UTF16 on Oracle Databases. per Oracle doc https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/NLSPG/ch6unicode.htm#NLSPG317 AL16UTF16 This is the default character set and recommended for SQL NCHAR data types. This character set e...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration