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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:

Search existing ideas

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,

Post your ideas
  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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References pane should be the same as any other panel

Currently, the Reference panel is not like "All" panel, "Processes" panel or any other artifact panel. There is no right click menu or triangle arrow pointing to right like there is on all other panels.
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support for specifying a pre-existing S3 bucket for an Advanced Storage Area in the FileNet FNCM Operator and Custom Resource

When automating or otherwise creating a FileNet environment in OpenShift it is not possible to specify a pre-existing S3 bucket to use as the storage for an Advanced Storage Area, the environment must be created and then the ASA added with the S3 ...
4 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

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
almost 2 years 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
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Functionality already exists

Task Mining events ordering

I see the TM events are ordered by frequency. Customer sees as logical to be able to to sort them by timestamp to by able to classify/tag the occurred events as they appeared during TM recording.
over 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Future consideration

Image and Custom Properties Display with single Click

Image and Custom Properties Display with single Click
8 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Opening disposal schedule takes too long and crashes

When loading disposal schedules in the IER desktop UI the load itself can take a long time if there are a larger number of folders associated with the schedule. In the logs it can be seen that loading the schedule initiates the loading of properti...
8 months ago in Enterprise Records 0 Not under consideration

WebPD: Ability to debug instances running on Inactive snapshot

In an online/connected workflow server environments, Desktop PD has the ability to debug instances running in Active and Inactive snapshots. However with the Web PD, we only have the ability to debug the instances running on the Active snapshot. C...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

User inactivity - logging and automated LDAP role unassignment > 90 days - audit requirements

All (!) companies must fulfill cyber security requirements which are not yet feature in ODM: ISO 27001 In addition, in automotive industryTISAX requirements in addition, companies with critical infrastructure. NIS 2 (EU 2022/2555) and RCE (EU 2022...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Set project security/visibility when publishing to Decision Center

Currently if a project is published or added to Decision Center, by default no security is enforced. When a user publishes a project and before an admin can enforce security on it, all users of DC have access to this project. If project security c...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration