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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

Enhancement Request: Process Map Relationship Extraction (Linked From / Linked To)

Business Need We have many large business process maps where activities are linked to other process maps across multiple blueprint levels. Currently, it is difficult for business users to identify and track these relationships without manually rev...
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 3 Planned for future release

Real-Time AI-Powered Process Intelligence Dashboard with Anomaly Detection for IBM Process Mining

I propose adding a Real-Time AI-Powered Process Intelligence Dashboard with Anomaly Detection for IBM Process Mining to help organizations gain deeper visibility into their business processes and proactively identify operational issues before they...
2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

BC - Business rule documentation to include hyperlinks for URLs

Our business users frequently make references to external documentations to support the business case of the rule. They use the documentation field on the business rule to record these external references as URL. When exploring these business rule...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Ability to download a printable copy of the snapshot comparison

Our teams of business users actively maintain and deploy business rules using the Business Console. Snapshot is a key feature they use to draw comparisons between two deployments (snapshots automatically created at each deployment). They frequentl...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Future consideration

Datacap Navigator nscan task to contain a batch scanned detail displaying total page count per pdf file.

Background: Customer came from FileNET Capture Professional and enduser are used to see scanned batch details and information. Idea Request: In IBM Datacap Navigator - Nscan task does not show how many pages is in the pdf unless user select on the...
2 months ago in Datacap 0 Under review

Need Plotter format in PDF export of the Blueprint from UI

Recently, IBM introduced the capability to export Blueprints with documentation in PDF format through the Blueworks Live (BWL) UI, which is a valuable enhancement. However, we have observed that the process map is currently exported as a static im...
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review

Enhancement Request – Extend AI Metadata Population to Process Summary Level

With the recent IBM enhancement, AI can automatically check and populate metadata at the activity level when generating blueprints. We would like this capability to be extended to the Process Summary level, as process-level metadata is equally imp...
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1

Reencrypt template using custom certs

In order to fix a http/2 cookie issue between DC and RES console, a Re-encrypted route was implemented according https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/odm/9.5.0?topic=tasks-configuring-external-access, using IBM templates. However, in this case user can not...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Remove auto fill metadata's from AI generated Blueprints

With the recent enhancement, AI can generate Blueprints from images and text. However, during blueprint generation, the AI is automatically populating activity-level metadata such as Cycle Time, Cost, Risk, and other attributes. These are sensitiv...
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 2

Datacap to support DB2 RDS to allign with CP4BA

IBM Datacap currently does not support IBM Db2 deployed on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) as a backend database. Other components within the IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) portfolio already support Db2 on Amazon RDS...
2 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Under review