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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...

All ideas

Decision Center is not supporting active/active which is required to update DB sequences to move traffic

Currently, Decision Center does not support traffic in an active-active setup across data centers. This limitation prevents updating sequences when shifting traffic between data centers. We are looking for a permanent solution to address this limi...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Ability to migrate dynamic teams from one snapshot to another

The migration of process instances and tasks will not transfer teams or manager teams to a new snapshot context when a team filter service is used. The teams associated with a task that utilizes a team filter service will block the deletion of the...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to organise BC queries in folder

Currently queries are organised in BC in a flat structure. Without any level of hierarchies, it is cumbersome to search the queries especially when the number of queries exceed a few hundreds. Queries are also essential to defining decision operat...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Future consideration

Apache poi libraries are outdated in BAW 24.0.0

The Apache poi libraries used by the product introduce a class-conflict with the latest version of Apache poi we use in our development. We see this as a vulnerability and would like this to be addressed.
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Allow Administrators to Enforce a Standard Date/Time Format Across IBM Content Navigator and BAW Case Client Desktops

Currently, IBM Content Navigator (ICN) and BAW Case Client display date, time, and timestamp values based on the user's browser regional settings and/or configured locale. As a result, users accessing the same case, document, or audit information ...
about 2 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

add 'Current Date' within saved search filter

In both Process Portal saved searches and Workplace reusable searches, the current 'Due Date' filter only supports a calendar-based selection, requiring users to choose a specific date. However, the client needs to have saved search that shows end...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Option to reset the service result cache in BAW Process Admin Console

In Process Admin Console (under 'Manage Caches') interface, there is currently no option to perform flush/reset operation for Service Result Cache in scenarios where some data change happens (for eg - when users sometimes modify the catalogs which...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Task mining - task classification - additional filter (filter by task)

Task mining - task classification - additional filter (filter by task) At the Task Classification stage, it should be possible to “filter by task,” as is the case with applications (“filter by application”) and pages (“filter by page”). This is ve...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

IBM Process Mining Simulation with Parallelism

Currently, Parallelism is not supported for the simulation engine in IBM Process Mining. The customer wants it included in IBM Process Mining to analyze such type of processes.
over 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release

Enable BAW’s JSON parser to correctly interpret `0E+0` (scientific notation for zero) in external REST service responses.

When invoking REST services via OpenAPI, BAW fails to parse response fields that return the value `0E+0`. The parser attempts to coerce it into a Long (integer), which Java does not accept in scientific notation, leading to a `NumberFormatExceptio...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration