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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

Check status that are "Running" or "Cancelling"

If there are any problems with the communication between the client and the Server, you may have problems when a bot is running or canceling an instance of a process. The bot will get stuck with these statuses and will not be changed. A good idea ...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Is a defect

Please add EPV and ENV binding options in CV

Please add (next to "Business Data", "Configuration Options" and "Localization Resources") ability to bind EPVs and ENVs in "Variables Declarations" in "Variables" in Coach View designer. You already have "Exposed Process Variables" and "Environme...
about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 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...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to select text from eml and docx. files rendered in Daeja ViewONE Virtual viewer

We have received request from our Daeja Virtual user base in which they are unable to select text from .eml and .docx files. We are able to select text from PDF's.
3 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted

Be able to track token consumption on a per-user basis for IBM Content Assistant

Being able to track token consumption on a per-user basis for IBM Content Assistant on-prem would be very valuable to their leadership. The leaders at Acuity Insurance would like to know the rate at which each authorized user is burning through th...
5 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Remove Document from Content Assistant AI Index Through API

Over time documents won't be in scope for your Content Assistant use case but there isn't a good way to remove them from the AI Index. If you could create a sweep and call an API to remove documents from the index that would be a good enhancement....
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Add Page Number to Content Assistant Java API and GraphQL

Issue: When using the Content Assistant Java API and GraphQL in the response you don't get the page number for the document chucks that are returned. Not having a page number available means the end user has to open the document and do a find whic...
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Content Assistant Feedback API Needed When Using Java API and GraphQL

Issue: When users are using Content Assistant through Navigator they can provide feedback (thumbs up, thumbs down and a comment) on the response of the chat feature. When using the APIs to integrate Content Assistant with a customer portal when yo...
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Support for Mac as an RPA client

Currently, RPA clients only support Windows, Since many business users use Mac(iOS), supporting Mac will provide more opportunities for use.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Datacap does not accept numeric value in username filter

Datacap accept user ID in alpha-numeric and only numeric value is not accepted. This seems to be a design concern, since there is no validation or constraint on the format of the user ID, and this ID is directly used to define an XML element name,...
11 months ago in Datacap 2 Not under consideration