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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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Entry template rendering in BAW 23.0.2 and ICN 3.0.15 (on-prem)

Additional properties that are of type ‘object’, are being displayed even though they’re not part of a layout. It would be easier to have the feature to toggle this on / off on the fly as opposed to making changes to the target class.
4 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

The "Set User Authentication" option is not available in WebPD when you remote debug into a PS.

Set User Authentication option is missing when process is run/debugged from remote process server. This option is used to run/debug human task with another test user id. Please refer PMR - TS006594335 for more details. It has videos & everythi...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Process Inspector: alphanumerical sorting the list of installed snapshots

In the left sidebar of the Process Inspector you can filter the instances based on certain Process App snapshots. The list of installed Process Apps are sorted, but for each Process App, the list of snapshots is not. (On some environments they see...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Message ARS0081I should include AG fields that are set to be 'Logged'

Customers want to see field information in messages that show document information when documents are retrieved or printed
4 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

Move Token API should prevent the move of a token on a top level process when there are active token in the sub processes

We had a condition in which a task in a sub process (2 nested level) was in a failed state. We moved the token on the parent process, and this break the execution tree of the process instance causing the process instance to be in an unmanageable s...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enabling Task Routes should execute on schedule without restarting services

Today, when a task route needs to be modified, the recommended approach by IBM is to restart services. This requires an elevated service account to perform this action and cost time. However, it has been proven in testing that we can modify a task...
over 1 year ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Not under consideration

Able to remove filters from process page in dashboard page

Complicated rules on which filters can apply where - eg. Across to the dashboard We must go back and forward to apply filters in process and dashboard rather than being able to remove them in dashboard if they were set in process
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Planned for future release

More dashboard elements allowed

Currently only 8 dashboard elements are allowed we should be able to have more like our competitors do
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Functionality already exists

OCR enhancements for RPA

Requesting enhancements for Optical Character Recognition within Robotic Process Automation. Specifically OCR Mode Update, for selection accuracy, and OCR handwriting recognition, for reading handwritten text from documents.
7 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Add merge cells feature in Table view for BAW

According to client business requirements, they are looking for merge cells feature in Table view (UI toolkit) based on some column data within the table.
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration