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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 Add DocuSign Action in Case Information Widget

Current Limitation: There is no direct way to access DocuSign actions within the Case workflow. Desired Behavior: Enable the addition of DocuSign actions within the Case Information Widget, allowing users to initiate DocuSign workflows directly fr...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Ability to Set ACL on DocuSign Actions

Current Limitation: DocuSign actions are not currently governed by user access control. Desired Behavior: Implement Access Control Lists (ACLs) to govern DocuSign actions. Users without the appropriate access level should be restricted from perfor...
5 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Add group feature in ICN search templates

The customer is designing search templates in ICN where we are using the "Add Group" functionality to add different groups in the search criteria so as to have the "Or match all of these properties" condition between the groups. For the above func...
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

Request to get progress information of background execution

I would like to have progress information and result reports for processes executed in the background, such as deleting branches in ODM v9.
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

IBM Process Mining SaaS - Allow Regular Admin user to visualize audit history

Currently, on IBM PM SaaS, only IBM can visualize the content of the Audit. Requests need to be done through cases. The goal of this idea is to allow customers to visualize the audit table with regular admin permissions.
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release

Provide some APIs to retrieve separately the important infos available in the XU Dump

Currently one has to retrieve a XU dump, or to retrieve the "DebugInfos" in the XU MBean, to be able to check some of the infos we can see in the XU Dump, such as the Connections. However, if we are just focusing on one part of those infos (such a...
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Control how the IBM Content Navigator viewer properties panel is displayed

The customer would like to be able to control if the properties panel is displayed by default when the viewer is opened and edit the default size for the properties panel.
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Include full path for "breadcrumb" navigation links on process view, including all spaces and subspaces

When viewing a process, the "breadcrumb" navigation shows the space and process name. If the space is a subspace, then to navigate to a parent space, you must click and navigate up multiple times to get to a parent space. Current process view brea...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

SMTP username and password authentication

Case TS003547354 Currently, there is no way for IBM BAW to use SMTP server that requires username and password authentication. This applies for both process center and server.
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Role-level based Activity map and Social net

Data mapping is required when uploading CSV and creating processes. We can then assign the resources and roles associated with the activities. Activity map and Social net in "Resource mapping" will be displayed properly if data mapping is complete...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Planned for future release