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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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Display date property with date format only, no need hour/minutes/second

There are some properties have only date nature (yyyy/mm/dd), no need HH/MM/SS, but in CMS, it displays all datetime properties with “mm/dd/yyyy, HH:MM AM/PM”, such as "1/25/2022, 12:00 AM"
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Better layout of the BPMN scheme

I suggest a minor change that would allow for a better layout of the PDF printout of the schema. When exporting Blueprint to PDF, each swimlane is extended to the width of the text in the 'Participant' data. If the 'Participant' text is long the s...
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Allow clean configuration of XU pool with JBoss console

(from Case TS003025050) For JBoss environments, there is no a clean way to configure the XU pool sizes. Currently, the supported way (and not very well documented) is to modify the file ironjacamar.xml from the resource adapter that comes the prod...
about 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Add SIPOC information as an exportable format

A common communication tool for Six Sigma process improvement project is a SIPOC (suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, and customers). This information is summarized in the View Process Summary menu option. We would like this to be a standard expo...
about 10 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Configuration Option To Force Linking Instead Of Attachements

Create a configuration option for administrators to disable the ability for users to upload attachments. When configured all of the functionality for attachments is replaced by functionality to add a url to a document in another repository.
about 10 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Stop search screen reset on timeout

When a user times out in FileNet Navigator the screen is reset and all searches are results are lost and have to be reentered. This did Not happen when we were in Content Manager on prem. We are requesting that the search screen and results are un...
about 4 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Store last user logged in datetime information.

right now there is no data about last login datetime for BPM users Store last user logged in datetime information.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

multi select image feature from photo gallery in navigator mobile app

-What is the business scenario? users should be able to upload multiple images from mobile photo gallery the same way navigator web application allow users to upload multiple files. -Is the request only for iOS? Yes mainly for iOS but you should c...
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Datacap Fastdoc ability to configure the Verify panel to show the Page Type.

1)Description - What would the requested feature do? On the FastDoc Verify panel, the document type is displayed at the top left corner of the panel. In the prior, 8.x version of Datacap, the page type was displayed rather than the document type. ...
about 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Control exposure for REST Automation Service from admin console

there is no way to remove exposure for a REST Automation service similar to Web Service Killian.Byrne (IBM) Jan 30, 2024, 15:08 Hi Amr, Thanks for joining me on the call today. I created a service flow yesterday and created an exposed automation r...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration