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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

support for Long type (or equivalet)

BPM is a widely used product, which integrates with many different systems. Long type is also a widely used data type, which many systems use and send/receive.BPM must support such a common type, in order for the integration with all the other sys...
over 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Make Simple Search Filters configurable.

This would improve the usability of the Simple Search for Org.
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Needs more information

IBM Content Navigator (ICN) for MS Office (NMO) Outlook-Addin adds the wrong MIME-type for an email

When uploading an e-mail to ICN using NMO in MS Office, the MIME-type property of the resulting document in FileNet is set to 'application/x-filenet-filetype-msg'. However, when adding an email in the ICN desktop, the file has the correct mimetype...
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Is a defect

Compatibility check for BAW running on RHEL VM hosted on OLVM (Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager)

Customer wants to know if BAW can run on RHEL VM hosted on OLVM however it is not mentioned as supported in Official BAW Software Compatibility report.
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Add possibility of Customization of filebeat.yml

Hello It looks like that possibilty of the configuration of filebeat is minimal, only enable it by define filebeat-output.yml and add external output. It is not possible customization of filebeat.yml file by adding aditional processors for logs pa...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Under review

Increase the amount of exportable rows in excel format in IBM Blueworks from 3,000 to 6,000

This will reduce the number ofhighly manual clean up and reconcillation exercises that instititutions with a large number of spaces need to perform.
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review

looking for a feature which it can trigger an email to respected owner name when you put any new comment @ Owner name for any process or approval flow

looking for a feature which it can trigger an email to respected owner name when you put any new comment @ Owner name for any process or approval flow It actually helps, as some times , people are not knowing that they need to review some comments...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Log file improvements

At the top of the log files we would like you to have information about the client version. In case the client updated its version, we suggest a WARN in the file informing that the version was updated. If the log file is deleted, we ask that the n...
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Request for Unified Timezone Configuration Across ALL CP4BA Components

Dear IBM/CP4BA Team, We would like to request a unified approach for configuring timezone settings across all CP4BA components. Currently, timezone configuration must be managed individually for each component through jvm_customize_options (for ex...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Request to Enhance Logging Parameters Documentation and Feature Support

Dear IBM/FNCM Team, The current documentation for Logging Parameters only references a limited set of configuration options. However, there is a requirement to support integration with Elasticsearch using additional authentication mechanisms such ...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted