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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.


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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

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"Added by" filter uses all the user from the LDAP

When searching cases by the property « Added by “, a field is shown to help choose the proper user. But the field search is linked to all the users from the LDAP, even if the users are not allowed to used Case Management. We are expecting that "Ad...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Copy variable to JSON in Data section of WPD Inspector

It would be very useful to have Copy to JSON functionality when inspecting objects in Web Process Designer. In Data section there could be a button for each variable (and its param and param of param and so on). Please refer to uploaded image "Cop...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

Print node/machine name in the UI in top panel for auditing/troubleshooting ODM issues

We have a cluster setup with 4 DC nodes. Sometime there may be issue with one or few nodes. When users report issues, its not possible for us to find the faulty node, so we restart everything and also when one node is slower, its hard find. So add...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Delivered

Option To Set default "Grid Columns" for all users

To display custom rule properties in explore view, we should change the settings under profile -> "Grid Columns". Each user should set this individually. We need an option to set a default list of columns for all users.
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Delivered

DE : Switch to disable condition re-ordering.

When DE compiles the rule , it rearranges the conditions for improving the performance. But we have use cases where conditions need to be executed in the given order. So we need this switch at ruleflow/rule level.
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Delivered

MySql8 should be supported by ODM

There is a customer in medical and health industry. They are using ODM8.8 product to build a clinical decision support system. Now the customer are complaining MySql8 is not supported by ODM8.8, even though MySql5.7 is OK. IBM's official website's...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Delivered

Please add support for the LDAP Provider: Oracle Unified Directory to FileNet Content Manager as a Container

My organization uses Oracle Unified Directory for LDAP. When configuring the IBM provided container of the CPE for Kubernetes it appears that only AD and Tivoli security directories are supported. Please add support for Oracle Unified Directory. h...
over 5 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Delivered

Ability to copy and paste comments from/to the comments widget

Business requirement is to have A Comment Widget available on the screen (and not on click of a button) so as to make sure the case handler(s) can enter a manual comment at any time - Main requirement in this Comment Widget is that the case handle...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Include IBM digital signature on IBM Content Collector binaries

Including IBM's digital signature on IBM Content Collector binaries will allow the IBM provided binaries to be trusted by the security tools like McAfee endpoint protection.
almost 3 years ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Delivered

Need exception handling for user without DisplayName, i.e., user list cannot be shown for reassigning case

Need exception handling for user without DisplayName, i.e., user list cannot be shown for reassigning case. In version v18, no issue even there is account without DisplayName but it is not working after upgrade to v19.
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered