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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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Export/Import scripts from/to control center

Capability to be able to export/import scripts from control center with RBAC added to restrict this access to certain users.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

ODM RES "Creation Date" is from when the deployment artifact is kicked off from Decision Center and not when it was deployed to the RES.

The "Creation Date" is from Decision Center, but from an audit perspective we need to be able to evidence when the ruleset was deployed to the RES. These times can be roughly the same if you push from directly form Decision Center to the RES, but ...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

ODM native support for password vault integration (ex. CyberArk)

Currently, ODM requires passwords to either be hardcoded or injected on deployment. This has resulted in some custom code on our side because we aren't able to have ODM make a call to CyberArk using an Alias to retrieve the service account/passwor...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Provide a java class/method that can create a teamspace based on a template, usable from an event handler or navigator service

It appears most/all of the code to create teamspaces is embedded in Content Navigator. That requires someone to navigate a UI to create a teamspace. This idea is to provide a simple Java entry point that takes a teamspace template and allows you t...
4 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Setting default Coach View for a Business Object type

It would be nice to be able to set default coach view for each business object. Something like associating files with program. If there are multiple coach views that have the same business object type as binding, user could choose which one would ...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to use cp4a-prerequisites.sh for multiple runtime instances

Deploying multiple runtime instances in single namespace would be a common use case for CPBA - BAW runtime environments. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0.0?topic=cbawrws-optional-configuring-multiple-instances-business...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

ODWEK: Consolidate folder search calls

ODWEK makes individual search calls to CMOD for each Application Group in a folder instead of submitting a single request that is fulfilled on the server side. For example. if I execute a search against "Folder 1" and "Folder 1" contains 10 Applic...
about 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

Allow more than one user to edit connections in Control Center

Today, after creating a connection, only the user who created the connection has permission to edit it. We would like the possibility of at least allowing more than one user to have this permission to edit the same connection, which in this case w...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Dashboards not marked as favorites in Process Portal removed as favorites after application deploy

Question When I deploy a new snapshot version of my Process Application, why do the dashboards that are marked favorite get removed as favorites? I have a dashboard in a Process App that I have marked as a favorite in Process Portal. When I deploy...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Needs more information

Can we compare two snapshot in Process Designer to check the details level of code

We would like to know if there is any way to compare two snapshots to understand the exact code changes to the lowest level.As far as we know, we can compare only the documentation but nothing else. If there is no way , please let us know if you h...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration