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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:

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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Enable Partitioning for BPM / BAW table CONTENTS

Problem raised with IBM as Case number TS003756070 We are using Db2 as the database to back BPM and BAW. The largest table CONTENTS has grown to 2Tb and will continue to grow because we do not have an archiving strategy in place for the contents t...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Client-side Human Service Error Notifications

In development using client-side human services, there are several pieces of functionality that exist in development inside the BPM application that do not exist when using client-side human services that could potentially save time during develop...
about 9 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Option to define the rule priority order in Decision Engine

In ODM, the rule priority property is understood in such a way that higher value means higher priority. But in PayPal, our requirement is just the opposite, lower the value, higher the priority. We have customization to flip the priority value. So...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Improve error output after failure of profile creation

When running "BPMConfig.sh -create -de {properties file}" we encountered a crash resulting in (first attempt) a Java core dump then (second attempt) a thrown exception followed by a pile of stack trace output. It transpired that the Dmgr profile h...
about 9 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

customize the control room DB password encryption tool

AA ever provided a DB password encryption tool to this client. Currently, when running the "crutil jar" file, the password must be entered with the keyboard. However, the client would like to customize the control room DB password encryption tool....
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration

CONTENT ANALYZER ISSUE

Missing features:Remove the “guidelines” in some documents in order for C.A. extract IBAN values ( Bank ID standard)
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Not under consideration

3. The Regulatory Project must be configured so that it is impossible to modify or delete a record before the completion of its retention period or shorten the retention period

Defect 3: Administrator can delete the new ACTIVE documents getting in to our repository by shorten the retention period on the CPE from ACCE without IER enablementFilenet CE allows the administrator to shorten the retention period at the docuumen...
almost 5 years ago in Enterprise Records 1 Not under consideration

2. 1. The Regulatory Project must be configured so that it is impossible to modify or delete a record before the completion of its retention period or shorten the retention period

Defect 2: Administrator is able to delete the ACTIVE document after updating the “Business Even Date and Shorten Retention Period” from ACCE & IER ICNCustomer is able to delete the active documents (Business Event date not updated - and retent...
almost 5 years ago in Enterprise Records 1 Not under consideration

Add "Move" from IER Search Results to move the records to a location

Probably the easiest way to make this work for most customers would be to support the feature ONLY when multi-filing is disabled on the FPOS. 1. When displaying search results, check to see if multi-filing is enabled for that FPOS a) If it is disa...
almost 5 years ago in Enterprise Records 0 Not under consideration

Clear text Submission of password

The Sensitive data like password are sent into clear text, it becomes easy for the attacker to sniff the network and get the sensitive data.It was found that the password is being transferred in clear text.
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration