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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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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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out-of-box User API for the Tasks in that are present at the BPMN design time .

out-of-box User API for the Tasks in that are present at the BPMN design time. We are having requirement where we need to get the Process and its defined tasks at the designed to configure the SLAs for them outside the BPM. We are looking for an A...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 2 Functionality already exists

implement monitoring of operator activity (IT employees - developers, administrators) on BPM platform

Customer is planning to implement monitoring of operator activity (IT employees - developers, administrators) on BPM platform. The goal is to obtain a clear, cross-sectional summary of activity over time for individual process developer. The summa...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Under review

FileNet should support customer managed encryption key for AWS S3 bucket upload and download of content.

FileNet should have mechanism to keep the encryption keys and also able to manage multiple keys in case multiple storage areas. This feature helps to maintain corporate security mandates. It's my understanding that there are several customers requ...
about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Functionality already exists

Template filters ability to add to current filters, not just replace

When applying multiple filters to one model if you want to apply a template filter in addition to current filters you can't. You can only replace current filters with template, and then you have to add all other filters you want to apply. This is ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Planned for future release

Password Expiring email prompt

Currently a BWL User is prompted only 2 days prior to Password expiring. In my case I received the email around midnight on a friday evening. I had the weekend off + 2 working days following. When I returned to work on Wednesday, the system prompt...
6 months ago in Blueworks Live 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

Add SharePoint Support to Cloud based storage options

SharePoint allows managing files, and content collaboration for teams and organization across Microsoft 365. This product integration support is for future and existing RPA customer, who would like to use RPA to streamline their business operation...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

Request For the WCAG 2.1 accessibility support for BAW , expecially the ‘out the box’ BAW coaches for example the Portal page

Hi BAW Product Dev. Team,Hope you are doing well Our key account - banking customer, have recently been conducting accessibly testing on the UI.They are testing against the WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards.They found that a small number of the ‘ou...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

RuleApp Versioning Policy in Business Console and Rule Designer

Currently, Deployment Configuration in Business Console and Rule Designer do not support RuleApp Versioning Policy. We need to deploy ruleapp from Business Console that automatically increments the version of the ruleapp when it is deployed.
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Not under consideration

Request to update the "Validation errors and warnings view" if there is data mapping error in the service flow.

If there is error of data mapping in the client-side human service, the "Validation errors and warnings view" is updated to indicate its error.But, if there is error of data mapping in the service flow, the "Validation errors and warnings view" is...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration