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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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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.
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Add a warning about possible data loss when Removing a Property Definition from a Document Class Definiton

Users would be warned about the possibility that metadata could be lost when property definitions are removed from a Document class if the class it is being removed from is the only one using the property definition. On SQL server the column defin...
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 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.
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Opening a process instance cases should be redirected to a near other case instead of a new tab.

Customer was looking for a possibility to open related process instance cases in the same browser tab, instead of separate ones.
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Needs more information

Add blueprint ID to API call collecting changes

Hello, Blueworks allows a users to create multiple blueprints with identical name within a space. However when we use following API call: "https://ams001.blueworkslive.com/scr/api/activity?type=PROCESSES_CHANGED&startDate=2024-04-29T7:38:55.29...
8 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

.Net Core support for FileNet

In April 2019, Microsoft released the latest version of the .NET Framework and announced that there will be no new updates to its features. While they offered to continue to support, this only means that bug fixes and security patches will be prov...
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Change position of start events

In case a process flow contains more than one start event within ONE swim lane, it would be useful if the position of each start event could be changed vertically (NOT horizontal). This would reduce crossing flow lines and make process models more...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Business Object usage in Navigator

The backend (FileNet CE) allows the definition of custom objects that can be added as multivalued properties on a document class. However, this kind of document properties is not supported by ICN. The support of this custom object properties must ...
almost 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Move Wombat into IBM BPM

With the GDPR regulations now in place, IBM had to take the Wombat site down. Given that the code already exists, and that it runs in WAS, a logical and easy step would be to move this into Process Center! If Wombat came with Process Center custom...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

AI-Powered Process Optimization

Integrate AI and machine learning algorithms to analyze process data and suggest optimizations. This could help in identifying bottlenecks, predicting outcomes, and recommending improvements.
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration