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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

Allow images (that's stored in a SharePoint and added to Documentation with a link) to appear in Word Doc export

Our company does not have a public repository or SharePoint where we can store images/docs. Because we have used all the storage space in BWL before, a SharePoint has been set up to act as a repository for images and documentations. Users get a li...
about 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Japanese support for Automation Document Processing (ADP)

Automation Document Processing (ADP) is new capture solution on Cloud Pak for Business Automation. Its AI-OCR capability could be very competitive in Japanese market, but it does not support Japanese yet.
about 3 years ago in Automation Document Processing 0 Future consideration

Hyperlinks are not treated as hyperlinks

In various part of Blueworks Live where text can be entered, hyperlinks are not clickable.Notable areas are:- custom textfields- documentation- comments The only part where hyperlinks work is adding it as a policy and then adding the policy to the...
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Functionality already exists

provide more KPI thresholds

For now you can set 3 levels for KPI thresholds and these are coloured red-yellow-green. It would helpful if we were able to define and configure more levels and the colours used for display.
about 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Future consideration

It is recommended to provide one-button degradation function

After upgrading CP4BA, if the environment cannot be used due to serious BUG, we hope to provide one-button degradation function. For example, after I upgraded 21.03.ifix16 to ifix17, there was a serious bug that caused the production environment t...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Is a defect

AW-ProcessCenter-Snapshot-Process(BPMN),匯出檔案缺少<bpmndi:BPMNDiagram>資料無法以BPMN viewer查看,建議加上

在導出BPMN時缺少<bpmndi:BPMNDiagram>這部分內容,而這部分內容正是渲染所必須的。 Translation - This part of <bpmndi:BPMNDiagram> is missing when exporting BPMN, and this part of content is necessary for rendering.
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Display current webservice endpoint information

In the ProcessAdmin, If user doesn't input the "override endpoint" field, he won't know what current endpoint is. It doesn't make sense that user needs to go back the authoring environment to check what current value is for runtime. The product sh...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Enable Watson Translate on the template description

We have a good set of template availablehttps://ibm.blueworkslive.com/scr/home#!library:templatesHowever, the template description, sometime detailed, is available only in english.It would be good to enable Watson Translate on that page so that cu...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Provide ability to change scheduled time of events in BAW

BPM/BAW should have the ability to update scheduled time of events to a later date/time through the Process Admin console or any other method in case a problem occurs with certain event execution.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

TW Search API truncates text (string data type) that has more than 512 characters long.

As requested by IBM engineering team in case# TS002626219 for problem statement as follows - TW Search API result is truncating the TW search result output to 512 characters. The data type of that variable is String; please note that all those obj...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration