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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:

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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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Can we add Risk name and description in metadata along with its severity which is already an existing feature

If we can include risk name and description in metadata then every time we extract the process and activity from bluworks it would be readily available for analysis of process improvement. It can help the analyst to have all the required informati...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live Not under consideration

Unique Naming for Downloaded and Exported Files

When downloading files from the tool. The file names should be unique where the content is unique. Request is to add Diagram and Documentation to the file names. Example: (Process Name) Diagram.(xxx) and (Process Name) Documentation.(xxx). Current...
almost 10 years ago in Blueworks Live Not under consideration

We need to handle deactivate condition cell merging on download decision table from DC

Right now in IBM ODM "We do not handle deactivate condition cell merging on download decision table, only processing it after re-upload in DC". It's good if IBM can provide deactivate condition cell merging on download also.
over 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Ability to keep user preferences for Multiple trigger dates

Process - IER ICN Desktop > File Plans Area - Trigger and Cutoff From -Disposition Instructions Function - Ability to keep user preferences For - Multiple trigger dates When/Example - Claim Closed Date & Last Trans. Date GAIG Priority -High...
over 3 years ago in Enterprise Records Not under consideration

Ability to add aggregate data- Electronic Record Folders' properties

Process - IER ICN Desktop > Work Area - "Electronic Record Folder" list From - "Process Work item" window Function - Ability to add aggregate data to For - Electronic Record Folders' properties When/Example - User wants a count of Records per F...
over 3 years ago in Enterprise Records Not under consideration

Ability to require fields

Process - IER ICN Desktop > Work Area - "Electronic Record Folder" list From - "Process Work Item" window Function - Ability to require fields For - Comment When/Example - Decision = Reject GAIG Priority - Medium Additional Notes - N/A if Rejec...
over 3 years ago in Enterprise Records Not under consideration

Ability to configure columns

Process - IER ICN Desktop > Work Area - "Electronic Record Folder" list From - "Process Work Item" window Function - Ability to configure columns for For - Electronic Record Folders' properties When/Example - User wants to view volume close dat...
over 3 years ago in Enterprise Records Not under consideration

ILMT without ClusterRole

Hi As discussed in the case TS012233404, we'd like to run the ibm-license-service without a ClusterRole and it should honor WATCH_NAMESPACE, and just check in those namespaces for IBM products. As we have no cluster admin rights in our namespace, ...
over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Not under consideration

Captcha Missing

Captcha functionality is used defend against various kind automation attacks and brute force attacks in critical functionality like login page, forgot password, change password sections.Attacker can brute force the critical functionality such as l...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

Rearrange linked items (policies, processes, etc.) by dragging and placing in the correct order

Rearranging linked items by dragging would save time. For example, you have an activity box that links to 10 processes and those processes are arranged alphabetically to find them easily. If you add a new process and then realphabetize, you would ...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live Not under consideration