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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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Functions for convert from date type to char type, from char type to date type.

There is following functions that it is able to use as analytics queries.”Queries”https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/process-mining/1.14.2?topic=analytics-queriesAccording to the above article, There is no functions to convert from date type to character...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Planned for future release

Documented REST API for updating EPV on branch level like it is available for ENV variables

Please add the POST /std/bpm/containers/{container}/branches/{branch}/epvs to the OAS documentation at /bpm/explorer/?url=/bas/ops/docs#/Environment%20VariableI saw it is already used in Process Admin for Tip branch EPV setting but it is not docum...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Reporting

Customized reporting functionality from BWL. Extraction of the reports from BWL which can be customized based on the user requirements.
5 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Blueprint specific metadata report

Certain metadata are captured at Blueprint level and not at process level. Report to provide metadata information on not just blueprint level but also at process level.
5 months ago in Blueworks Live 4 Needs more information

Specific Metadata Report

An option should be made available in the BWL to extract the "Where Use" data of a Glossary value. Example: for Critical System: report to provide details on all the blueprints/ workspace that have it captured in summary and in details.
5 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Functionality already exists

Telescopic Report

Provide overview on mapping and details covering process details with full drill down. 1. Drill down as space/ sub space/ Blueprint/ Linked Process level view. 2. Provide detailed summary view on process details & meta data.
5 months ago in Blueworks Live 3 Needs more information

Flat file reporting

An excel export which includes the details of all the mapped blueprints along with its subprocess and metadata in a single sheet would give organizations visibility into their processes and also help with the reporting. As we are using Blueworks L...
5 months ago in Blueworks Live 3 Needs more information

As a companion to the Undo feature, have a Redo feature as well

There are times that you want to quickly Undo a series of changes to see how they impacted the diagram, but then want to put them back. Snapshots don't facilitate this unless you happened to put a snapshot at the point you want to back to, but it'...
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Make the FileNet local groups feature available on BAW.

The customer has hierarchy tasks created and distributed on FileNet that doesn’t replicate on BAW. The idea is to import/use the existing local groups to have a better control of the users and roles. In the case of an AD failure or expressive chan...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Future consideration

Feature to monitor and rank the most accessed documents.

The customer needs a report from the most accessed document for marketing, model creation and quality auditing. Right now, the only event monitoring we have doesn’t seem to register when a user opens a document and the deep event monitoring, we ha...
9 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 2 Functionality already exists