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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

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

Request to Enhance Logging Parameters Documentation and Feature Support

Dear IBM/FNCM Team, The current documentation for Logging Parameters only references a limited set of configuration options. However, there is a requirement to support integration with Elasticsearch using additional authentication mechanisms such ...
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Undo from Accidental Deletion - does not exist.

Current pain point that is super frustrating. Accidently key press that deletes an entire structure and there is NO WAY to undo that within the Discovery Map Tree Structure. When you accidently blow away a structure - there appears to be no way to...
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

provide some kind of encapsulation option (private, public) for ODM project variables

Context : Rule Designer, rule authoring, variable definition To provide a better user experience for business users, and avoid confusion in variable completion.It would be good to provide an encapsulation concept for projects variables : ex privat...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

A bulk update facility in updating same data fields with the same data for multiple process\activity boxes.

A bulk update facility is now becoming a must. We are waiting days and sometimes weeks updating the same data fields with the same data, and wasting hours and hours of time on this and this time can definitely be spent on more pressing items of work.
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Support for MongoDB

Currently BAMOE 9 does not support non-SQL db such as Mongo DB, and wondering if we can have support for this
9 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Under review

Time Zone on the Display of Sent date in rendered E-Mails

Users of Content Navigators by default see all dates converted to their local times. When they open E-Mails, they naturally expect the Sent Date to refer to their local time too. According to our understanding this is not the case and needs to be ...
about 2 years ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 1 Future consideration

Add certificate/s to HTTP Request #SPGI #IBMRPA

We were working in an MVP whose scope was to mark in Trusteer if some items are or not fraud. In order to do this marking activity, robot should invoke Trusteer using its API - FeedbackLoop. During the MVP build phase, we have faced a blocking iss...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Fully enable BAW in the CP4BA to exploit EntraID

The CloudPak foundational services includes support for integration with EntraID, which allows for EntraID-integrated support of most of the BAW components. However, there are several documented known limitations here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide sorting function for properties

Currently it is not possible to change the order of the (custom) process properties. As custom fields might be added/removed over time it would be helpful to have a sorting/rearranging functionality so the property fields can be displayed in a mea...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Managing navigator access points to allow multiple clients on the same URL in a CP4BA environment.

Clients who want to access the Case Client, using other different URLs instead of the default one. For now when they are trying to access the case client from a different route, it fails with CORS error. Seems the content navigator plugin is calli...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration