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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

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All users can see who created a blueprint and who last modified it, over 90 days

Give all users the ability to view who created a blueprint and who last modified it, even it has past the current 90-day period. It is crucial to be able to see who created an existing blueprint so if another user has a process that overlaps or du...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Desktop and Entry Template (FileNet) ability to filter choice list items

This is useful to speed up user processes by focusing them on relevant content. Example for a search/saved search the user will only be presented with the items from the choice list of document types that his team works with preventing scrolling o...
about 2 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

To support Oracle UCP/TAC

Hi team, We are migrating a solution to BAW + Oracle ExaCC, but now failed on TAC testing. Oarcle product TAC is supporting by UCP model and we can see Websphere is able to support UCP from this document Enabling Oracle Universal Connection Poolin...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Under review

Ability to Configure Custom Starting Values for Instance IDs and Task IDs

Request for a configurable option that allows IBM BAW administrators to define custom initial values for Workflow Instance IDs and Task IDs. In the current IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) implementation, all environments start generating In...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Process Admin: Prevent synchronizing users that return in user searches in BAW, BAStudio

By default, all users returned from a user search are automatically added to the BAW database tables. This behavior can become problematic when a Process Admin user search returns a large number of users, resulting in unnecessary data being insert...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Decision Center admin section should have placeholder to view all rules locked by different or specific users to unlock

This is helpful when business users are accidentally locking the rules in case session expires and forgot to unlock them. In this case no one else will be able to work on the specific rule unless its lock is released by admin. Admin has difficulty...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3

ICN should allow users to modify the document class via Entry Template

We have a business user case in which we aim to let users rectify initial categorization mistakes or switch categories to sub-document types. However, IBM Content Navigator (ICN) lacks a built-in feature for end-users to alter document class, nece...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Cache choice list data on the client side to improve BAW Case client performance

During performance testing of the BAW platform we observed a high volume (1 million) queries against the Cvl table during a 4 hour test of 250 users. This contributes to latency in the BAW case client UI.
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Error in inactive rules

After installing Decision Center 8.12.0.1.IF011 on a new infrastructure and migrating projects, errors occurred where inactive rules were processed during the rule API execution. This issue had previously occurred after implementing IFIX 8.10.5.1....
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Is a defect

The BPMDeleteDurableMessages command should allow users to specify messages that have been consumed, not just a date range as it exists currently

As it stands the BPMDeleteDurableMessages command only allows you to specify a date cut-off for deleting durable messages. It should also give you the option to specify that you only wish to delete consumed messages. Right now there is no mechanis...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration