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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

Increase Word Document Information (Approval table and cover)

We are using "Process App" to launch process validation workflows.We can see the approval status in the "Work History" of each blueprint (Click on "Select a view or action for this process" > "View Work History") We would like to include in our...
almost 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Expand Word Footer to at least 150 characters

Expand word footer to at least 150 characters.
almost 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Ability to select API Tester Application in testing Change or Validation Activity

Integrate functionality to allow the user to select a third-party API testing application (e.g., Postman, SoapUI, etc.) in the Test tab of a Change Activity to test business rules. Selecting an API testing application will automatically create a R...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Add ablitly to connect all data exports within Blueworks Live

Citi is transitioning our current process mapping inventory into Blueworks. Today we have the capability outside of Blueworks to view all of our map meta data in one file. With the current map data export options in Blueworks (Excel, BPMN, XDPL) t...
about 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 8 Future consideration

Support automatic retries for service invocations

Support automatic retries for service invocations. Services can be temporarily unavailable or they can timeout (for a variety of reasons). It would be helpful to be able to configure n number of automatic retries for a service in a service flow in...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Split combined documents

During home loans application to a bank, applicant scans and submit ID, account statement, payslip, proof of address as one document. The homeloan assessor wants to automate the processing of splitting the documents and classify
over 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Add Task instance and Process instance REST APIs to the Operations APIs

Currently https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=update-put and https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=instance-put-setdata are not available as Operations APIs here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=apis-operations-rest-reference...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improve usability of RES REST API method /deleteDecisionTraces (with optional selection filters)

RES Console REST API method /deleteDecisionTraces (with optional selection filters) only accepts start and end date filter as an epoch time stamp in milliseconds. and requires customer to use an external utility/web site such as https://www.epochc...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Support JSON-to-XML and XML-to-JSON conversions directly in BAW (without the need to import a 3rd party library)

Support JSON-to-XML and XML-to-JSON conversions directly in BAW (without the need to import a 3rd party library)
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

HTML File render in ViewONE virtual (Email and other HTML files)

Client would like the viewer to render HTML files such as Old emails archived and stored in HTML, and web pages.
about 5 years ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 2 Future consideration