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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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Removing the metadata from Rest API response

The Rest API response always has the metadata piece in it and there is no way for you to remove the metadata from the response like how you do for the parts. You should give another option below the parts checkbox to remove the metadata from the r...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

The Case ID link next to the main heading "Step: Update Case" is a button/link element. However, there is not visual indication indicating the functionality except for using red colour alone

The Case ID link next to the main heading "Step: Update Case" is a button/link element. However, there is not visual indication indicating the functionality except for using red colour alone Provide visual cue such as underline to indicate interac...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

We want to disable the BC UI project export option via application role permissions

We want to restrict project export option to a set of users who are assinged read-only application roles, who can just view the rules but can't change anything today. To enforece better security, we want to restrict export project for set of users.
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Delivered

To support installing multiple TOS with operator/CR for BAW container version

For case management, the case solution max property number is limited by database table max support column number, e.g. Oracle table max column is 1000. In our current situation, a case solution usually has hundreds properties, then one TOS can on...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Alternative for implementing IlrTraceTester

When using DVS for testing, we implemented IlrTraceTester interface to customize the test result validation, so we can generated a custom report where some attributes are shown just for information, not validation. Some of this attributes are only...
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Delivered

FileNet Salesforce Connector - Enhancement to “Add Document Dialog” page

They would like to set the default or preset value in each property on the page. This could be done using Property Defaults on Content Platform Engine. I mentioned that on the call yesterday however they would like to have these defaults / preset ...
about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Delivered

EUS support for CP4BA

Currently CP4BA doesn't support EUS policy and this restricts the deployment in the same cluster where other cloud paks are deloyed with EUS support.
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Delivered

BPM Coach not redirected back to login screen after timeout

BPM Coach does not automatically redirect users to the login screen when a session times out. Instead the information on the screen remains as is even after hours. Only when user tries to take any action, it then redirects to login page. This may ...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Web Process Designer Zoom

Editor text font sizes are too small. Everything else is distorting when we use zoom feature in the browser. Can editor features be enchanced?
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

reduce "Initial Release" listed when publish a decision service from RD to DC when the DS is referenced by multiple s

There are many "Initial Release" listed when publish a decision service from RD to DC when the DS is referenced by multiple services. We can not know which "Initial Release" can make the BOM effective for all decision services.Hope to reduce compl...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Delivered