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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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ICN should allow users to modify the document class via Entry Template

We have a business user case in which we aim to let users rectify initial categorization mistakes or switch categories to sub-document types. However, IBM Content Navigator (ICN) lacks a built-in feature for end-users to alter document class, nece...
3 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

The ICN stored search displays the Boolean operators between the groups and the individual criteria only in edit mode. It should be visible both Edit mode and while opening normal stored search.

The issue is that, when you create a search that has property groups, as long as the search is in Edit mode by the creator/owner of the search the Boolean operators within the group and between the group and the individual criteria are visible. Bu...
7 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Add additional functionality DocuSign Plugin

Need to have the ability to: 1) Allow the user submitting the document for signing to designate who the recipient is. Does not work in 3.1 2) Allow the user submitting the document for signing to edit the Email Body 3) Allow the user submitting th...
7 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Add Support for TreeModel PMML Models created in SPSS Modeller into ADS

Currently ADS only supports the import of PMML Model ScoreCard and RuleSet definitions. SPSS Modeller in Cloud Pak for Data often creates TreeModel PMML definition files that contain decision table logic that could be mapped to an ADS decision tab...
over 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Rule execution server access control

We are looking for the admin privilege's for the monitoring group except ruleapp deployments.
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Improve Search Functionality in New Editor

The new editor's search functionality has two critical issues: Incorrect Partial Matching: When searching for a term like "vip", the editor returns domains containing partial matches ( "ip" within "Tipo") instead of exclusively matching "vip". Thi...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Write out the month (e.g. Jan, Feb, Mar...) when displaying the date

Display all dates as 13-May-2024 (instead of 13.05.2024) The month should be displayed in Chracters then as a number. Many other systems have this option, for example Jira, see example attached.
4 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Enhance Verbalization Display in New Editor to Support Full Rule Descriptions

In version 8.12, the new editor truncates rule verbalization to 50 characters, making it difficult for users to view complete rule descriptions. The new editor should support word wrap or provide an option to view the full verbalization of rules, ...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Export of Decision Tables (DT) to Excel should export also the Table formats

When you have a Format set to your Decision Table column, this format is not being exported when you export the Decision Table. The result may not be usable as such for instance for script operation by the customer, forcing extra editing operation...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Mark documents that have annotation(s) in content lists with a symbol

Users would like to see in search result lists that a document has annotations without the need to open every document.
about 1 month ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration