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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

Need an option to define virtual categories

We have a use case to split a ruleset into multiple rulesets to reduce the complexity and also to execute the multiple rulesets in parallel and asyc based on the requirement for the same category. We will execute the rulesets for the same checkpoi...
over 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

URL for artifacts in BAW application

It would be nice to have a link to an artifact in BAW application. This would enable developers to bookmark artifacts, share URL(s) with colleagues and so on.
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Oracle DB Support AL16UTF16 character set for BPM NCHAR character set

support NCHAR character set AL16UTF16 on Oracle Databases. per Oracle doc https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/NLSPG/ch6unicode.htm#NLSPG317 AL16UTF16 This is the default character set and recommended for SQL NCHAR data types. This character set e...
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Model Labels Field length and width adjustment

Customers have requested the field length of 8 for model objects be extended to 12 and field height adjusted a line or two.
almost 11 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Ability to discard library item changes

Goal The idea is to have a clear and correct history of the library item changes. Current functionality Imagine that the developer makes an unwanted change to the library item. The developer then chooses the undo option and undoes those changes. H...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Attach to window when using "Start Browser" action

When working with websites, there are many time when regular browser actions do not work, so window actions are needed, such as send keys (not webkeys). When using Start browser the window is not attached and it causes a conflict if another action...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Not under consideration

Create option to connect to MongoDB through SSL for Self-Signed Certificates

The option to connect to an external MongoDB for Process Mining is vital for a larger workload, but to be the most secure, providing the option to connect through SSL while using a self-signed certificate should be available.
over 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining 2 Not under consideration

New languages support in IBM Navigator

IBM Navigator already supports a lot of languages (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/content-navigator/2.0.3?topic=navigator-language-support-content), but there is a need from clients in CEE to have their local languages supported as well. They are loo...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

IBM CN for Microsoft Office task tab

IBM CN for Microsoft Office. The tasks tab will only show the sample FileNet review steps. We created our own Workflows, but those steps are not visible
over 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

New roles for Decision Center which has Read-Only Access

The customer has requested a new role to be created which has Read-Only access to the Decision Center. It would be like resMonitor role for RES console.The basic user role rtsAdmin has basic priviliges in DC which enable it to edit the rules and p...
over 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration