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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 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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IBM Navigator plugin loaded status and dependency of plugin details

After restart of profile of WebSphere all plugins need to be loaded back by administrator ,If team can have smart way to load all plugin and also indicate dependent plugin and notify through email or SMS to admin if any plugin losses connection.
over 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

Allow for choosing the storage location for FileNet Content Manager thumbnails.

Currently, FileNet Content Manager 5.5.5 only allows thumbnails to be stored in the Object Store database. Even at the smallest thumbnail size, this begins to take up a large amount of space in the database. We have a requirement to generate thumb...
over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration

Keep activity numbering on when in Analyze Mode

Turning on Activity Numbering is incredibly helpful, especially when communicating with users in building/updating processes. However, as soon as Analyze mode is selected the activity numbering is turned off. Keeping the activity numbering turned ...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Editor User ability to delete other people's comments in the Documentation View

Editor users can deleted other people's comments when viewing the Process Diagram - either in the details pane on the right side or in the Properties dialog box. The Editor user should also be able to delete other people's comments when in the Doc...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Customize Property list at the Account Level not just at the individual user level

We have nearly 3000 Viewer users. The customize property function that was added is great but trying to get the message to 3000 Viewers on how to Customize their properties is difficult. We would like the ability to set customize the property list...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under consideration

Create query reporting tool

We are wanting to use the IBM Studio reporting tool, however, when trying to create my queries, I only found one way, which is by dragging the preloaded tables and fields using a 'Query Generator'. That way it's unfeasible, I need to assemble my o...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

BC - Create Rule: Collect data for properties first before creating the rule

In business console, while creating a new rule, it just collects rule name and creates the rule. But it should collect all the properties data before providing the rule editor. In PayPal, BOMs are filtered based on the checkpoints(category) proper...
over 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

DE : need a new construct to execute all given conditions irrespective of results.

We need a new construct where all conditions can be executed irrespective of results. This is needed for doing custom variable assignments in the rule conditions.
over 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

MySql8 should be supported by ODM8.8 and higher version

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 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Permitir alterar a versão do agendamento sem ter que fazer um novo

Permitir que trocamos a versão do robô agendado no TENANT sem ter que excluir o agendamento antigo.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration