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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,

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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...

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Snapshot comparison view of process blueprints or list of changes

If you work on a process blueprint you often have the need to see what has changed from one version to another or compare two versions. This can be either achieved by a simple list of changes, or a side-by-side comparison of the old versus new pro...
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

For each fix pack or new version of Datacap, backup, save, all configurations and registry tunes and reapply as the last install step.

Customers constantly have to waste time and resources checking and resetting the previous settings and registry tunes in Datacap after every patch or new DC version.
almost 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Add a warning about possible data loss when Removing a Property Definition from a Document Class Definiton

Users would be warned about the possibility that metadata could be lost when property definitions are removed from a Document class if the class it is being removed from is the only one using the property definition. On SQL server the column defin...
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

WebPD compatibility with Internet Explorer 11

After updating the BAW from 20.0.0.1 To 21.0.3.1, WebPD URLs are not opening in IE. We have opened a cases TS016251380, TS016277223 and TS016924100 and IBM suggested to use Modern Browser. When Application teams are using modern browsers, they are...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

IBM BAW to support DB schema name changes, as the current system only supports schema names matching the original, impacting our necessary DB refresh practice.

We are experiencing an issue with IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) related to the DB schema reference. Despite updating the database credentials in the WebSphere Application Server (WAS) console to the new username PRODICNDB, the system cont...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Add blueprint ID to API call collecting changes

Hello, Blueworks allows a users to create multiple blueprints with identical name within a space. However when we use following API call: "https://ams001.blueworkslive.com/scr/api/activity?type=PROCESSES_CHANGED&startDate=2024-04-29T7:38:55.29...
6 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

.Net Core support for FileNet

In April 2019, Microsoft released the latest version of the .NET Framework and announced that there will be no new updates to its features. While they offered to continue to support, this only means that bug fixes and security patches will be prov...
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Would like be able to specify a default sort for ICN's work in-basket including whether the sort is descending.

This feature would allow users to have sort for the in-basket automatically applied without the user needing to click on the column headers.
11 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Remove Unafe-inline and unsafe-eval as required directivies in content secuity Policy Header

As Standard practice is advised to have content security header present in the response and not to have unsafe-inline or unsafe-eval directives present in this header values These unsafe directives could allow malicious script code to be included ...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Integração com Google Planilhas

Google Planilhas tem quando certa relevância no mercado, nossa empresa por exemplo não usa mais o Microsoft Excel. Hoje as automações com Google Planilhas precisam ser feitas através da conversão do arquivo .gsheet para .xlsx, funciona até certo p...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration