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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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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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"Run now" scheduled UCA in the Workflow Server

There is "Run Now" button in the Workflow Center. It is an easy way to manually run scheduled UCA.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=agents-creating-configuring-undercover-agent-scheduled-message-event However, the Workflow Server environm...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Resolve separation of duties issue to address compliance issue

This request would be useful for everyone that requires separation of duties for compliance. We have "Business" users that create table changes on a Branch. These branches are then merged to Business Change Branch, then Stage, then Prod by our "De...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Future consideration

Ability to restrict the file upload of 0 kb or a corrupted file

Ability to restrict the file upload of 0 kb or a corrupted file & Ability to restrict the file upload larger than a specific size This feature will be helpful to avoid the ingestion of an already corrupted file to FileNet CPE.
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Ability to restrict the file upload of 0 kb or a corrupted file

Ability to restrict the file upload of 0 kb or a corrupted file & Ability to restrict the file upload larger than a specific size Corrupted files are accidentally uploaded to FileNet via Content Navigator.
6 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

On MSSQL databases, CPE Property Definition or Template may summarily remove the underlying columns in the database.

Under certain circumstances and only on MSSQL, removing a CPE Property Definition or Template summarily removes the underlying columns in the database.
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Allow Component Queue Adapter user credentials to be changed via automation

Current functionality of Case Manager and FileNet Workflow Component Queue Adapters allow you to change the user credential via ACCE in a manual fashion. For companies that have security policies that require strong passwords and periodic password...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Datacap Navigator - Batch list with datacap security applied

In Datacap Navigator, when a data controller user accesses the job monitor, it sees all the batches of one Datacap application (including the batches belonging to the other offices). The user should see only batches which he has access, as configu...
12 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

User-control allowing the blocking of deletion of reports

For audit purposes, we need some kind of user-control, such as a new parameter, allowing the blocking of the deletion of reports We are required to maintain a read-only, non-delete copy of the deployment reports for 13 months for regulatory purpos...
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Future consideration

Site Oriented Configuration Items Instead of Domain Level

Fixed Content Devices, configuring the URL to connect to HCP for instance, would be good to either A) have a fail over URL property (try A, if A doesn’t work try B) OR per site/jvm structure have site A connect to A HCP Head and site B connect to ...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

JDBC and DB2 Connectors

It would be nice if WDG had JDBC and DB2 connectors so that it may connect with JDBC and DB2 clients OOTB.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration