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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

Enable additional trace for ProcessAdmin EPV, Environment Varaiable for manual edits

We are using Business Automation Workflow 21.0.3 running on linux flavor, Application team listed the below concern to handle in BAW product. ibm should add more logger information so that if someone making a change in the processAdmin--> deplo...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Put Text on Gateways in Front of the Arrows

The text on the gateways is always behind the arrow and can be difficult to read. You need to adjust the wording a bit to get it to show more clearly, or move the arrows so there is no arrow coming out from the bottom of the gateway. The latter is...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 6 Future consideration

SAML 2.0 support for IBM ODM certified for Kubernetes

The users of IBM ODM certified for Kubernetes need to access the IBM ODM via our enterprise login which is currently running Microsoft AD Federated Services (FS). For our IBM ODM certified for Kubernetes to authenticate to Microsoft AD FS, the pol...
over 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Future consideration

Enhancement to restore initial thumbnail view within the GUI without the need to use "hotkeys" to return to a normal view.

While in Datacap scan or verify UI with Thumbnail view enabled, we can toggle between pages of thumbnails and view the corresponding image. when we double click the page thumbnail to view a full page of the corresponding image, there is no way to ...
almost 2 years ago in Datacap 1 Not under consideration

Line breaks in activity text

For instances like quoting an email address, it would be beneficial to enable Alt+Enter to force a line break in the Activity text. Sometimes spaces will work to present this (Example 2), but I have had instances where Blueworks ignores me after 2...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Add IBM RPA chatbot integration for "Line" app

Request to add chatbot support for "Line" application. Integrating the chatbot with channels in IBM RPA on premises - IBM Documentationhttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rpa/21.0?topic=prem-integrating-chatbot-channels-in-rpa-premises
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Exclusive Gateway label Dragging

When creating an exclusive gateway, the labels along the lines (i.e. yes / no) can only be dragged along the line within a certain limit if the line is long. The system does not allow the user to drag it further.
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Deleting Durable Messages from which correlate to commpleted instances

We ask for adding the functionality of deleting records from durable messages once an instance which consumed the message reaches Completed status. not only by the age of the message which is currently offered in the product.
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support generic (custom) LDAP providers as target for the SID Migration Update tool

Cloud Pak for Business Automation extends support for generic LDAP providers in version 22.0.2, beyond IBM SDS and Microsoft AD, to include support for "Custom" LDAP providers, in line with the support statement of the Foundational Services. This ...
almost 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Notification panel inside the control center

In the control center, there may be a place where IBM notifications are located and created by the tenant administrator. Examples of notifications generated by IBM: scheduled GMUD, discontinuation of commands, and license expiration, among others.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration