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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

Provide option for viewers to only display properties containing a value

Current limitation: When a viewer displays a process documentation and selects "Show All Details" all property fields are being displayed no matter if they contain a value or not. This is negatively impacting the overview and is not consistent wit...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Refresh the Datacap Verify batch tree so that all information in the Batch Tree panel is reloaded from the task XML after the Alternate Task profile completes

Currently, the verify UI does not refresh all the information in the Batch Tree panel from the task XML after the Alt Task profile completes. In the Verify UI, the Alt Task Profile is executed to automatically update the batch DCO—such as adjustin...
6 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Email synchronisation with active directory or IBM directory for BAW notifications

To enable email notification for BPM based worflow, the end user must go in the process portal, encode manually the email address where he want to receive the notifications and finally select the type of notification he want to receive. We need to...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Official Helm Chart Support for IBM Cloud Pak Workflow Process Services (wfps)

Provide Official Helm Chart Support for Cloud Pak Workflow Process Services (wfps)Our organization's current deployment and lifecycle management practices for IBM Cloud Pak Workflow Process Services (wfps) do not fully leverage the benefits of sta...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Option to abort running LogCleanupCommand

We need the LogCleanupCommand to be able to be aborted quickly when it is running. The LogCleanupCommand is scheduled daily to run at 9 pm local time, but if it is still running at 7 am, it needs to be stopped so as not to impair the overall perfo...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Is a defect

More granular permission management

The current functionality does not allow a user to select only the operation to be published without granting access to targets, servers, and the administration tab. Currently, the only way to enable a user to select an operation is by assigning t...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Not under consideration

Task mining - solving a problem with a chrome browser extension

Task mining - solving a problem with a chrome browser extension Due to the need to have an extension for the chrome browser, there are problems with access from the organization. This results in the inability to record user activity in the browser...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Is a defect

Screen repository

Create a repository in order to save the elements retrieved by recorder with the relative image preview. When I have to automate a new use case with the same application, instead of capture a new element, I can get it from the repository and use i...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

IBM Daeja Viewer: Printed docs have the page count printed in top left hand corner.

Provides page count
2 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted

Session timeout settings should be controlled by each account administrator in order to be in compliance with user company standards.

This is useful and would be applicable for all accounts because each company has their own standards for governance. and security. My account is not in compliance with my company standards, and I now have to apply for an exception which may not be...
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Planned for future release