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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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Update to proxy settings configuration in BAW to add included-hosts list

Currently BAW has a way to configure proxy settings as defined in the documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/23.x?topic=properties-configuring-proxy-settings. Per this documentation, we have a way to exclude certain hosts that doesn't need...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

In the Glossary report, we need the field "Where Used" Added

In the glossary report that can be exported to excel, there is no field called "Where Used" that shows each map where the glossary term appears. It is available in the view but not available in the excel export. The excel report is essentially use...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 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

Ability to Archive Project

We are looking for a way to archive a rules project that is no longer in use so that we still have access to the change history, but so that it is no longer update-able, or executable, and we are no longer including that project in our artifact co...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Not under consideration

Ability to Add Custom Templates

As Blueworks is a tool that is used across our company, different departments projects are mapped from a specific view point or with a specific focus on how the Customer interacts with the process, or how a System functions etc. This leads to diff...
10 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

TTB need to enable button "printing" on password-protected PDF documents in IBM Filenet (DAEJA viewer )

TTB need to enable button "printing" on password-protected PDF documents in IBM Filenet (DAEJA viewer ) Client name : TMBTHANACHART BANK PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED Refer to IBM case TS013546704 How to set To be able to print documents with printers th...
over 1 year ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Future consideration

Function to automatically perform “Refresh snapshot to parent” in background

Customer uses “Refresh snapshot to parent” function to reflect updates in parent processes. Since customer needs to frequently perform “Refresh snapshot to parent” on the production, customer wants to automatically perform it in background.
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Permitir alterar a versão do agendamento sem ter que fazer um novo

Permitir que trocamos a versão do robô agendado no TENANT sem ter que excluir o agendamento antigo.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Provide a Virtual Instance Configurable Limit on Number of Concurrent Sweeps Allowed

We have observed, within a site that if multiple sweeps are running and restarts of JVMs happen during sweep processing, all running sweeps can potentially realign to the first active JVM post restart and therefore overload the JVM/Server. In case...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Shortcut to delete all unused objects

To start new projects, we often start by copying another script, leaving many variables, routines or assets without any reference in the development, also because sometimes we forget to delete it, anyway. Given this, it would be very productive...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration