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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 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

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Perform action when tabbing out of field in Datacap Navigator.

In the thick client, when the user leaves certain fields, it performs a lookup to an Oracle database to populate other fields. This is achieved using the fieldname.LostFocus event. I'm not sure if there is an equivalent to the LostFocus event in t...
over 1 year ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Systematic enforcement that the Approver cannot also be the Author of a change activity.

Allow the administrator to choose if the enforcement of this new constraint: The Approver of a change activity cannot also be the author of the same change activity. Enforcement of this constraint will ensure separation of duty is followed.
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Setting default Coach View for a Business Object type

It would be nice to be able to set default coach view for each business object. Something like associating files with program. If there are multiple coach views that have the same business object type as binding, user could choose which one would ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Exception handling:: Client-side Human Task with attached UCA

Scenario: Process has Client-side Human Task with attached UCA. Once UCA is triggered, the task needs to be completed automatically. Issue: User is working with the Client-side Human Task -> UCA has been triggered -> User is not aware about ...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Export/import of project security details of a decision service as Decision Center REST API

Applying project security of a decision service through automation can be achieved by having this feature as OOTB API. This will help in reducing manual work of applying project security via Administration tab every time new decision service is cr...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Export / import process instances from a backup in case of disaster or loss of data

Sometimes it could happens that a process instance get lost, and we would being able to import this instance without impacting on the running instance. Let me pose 2 examples: Example 1: During a disaster a lot of instance could have been lost, bu...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

BAW to support MS SQL Always On Availability feature

BAW to support the MS SQL Always On Availability. this is critical functionality with benefits for High Availability and in replicating environments to the DR site.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Allow disconnecting one Object Store instantly from the domain

FileNet does not allow you to instantly “disconnect” an Object Store from the domain. So I would like to submit an enhancement request for the implementation of this feature.
10 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 2 Future consideration

Pending activities executing automatically after license reset

When the license is activated, it executes all the tasks that were in the queue. We would like to provide the function, for the user to choose if they want to run the processes pending or not.
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 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