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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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Allow pass thru of sql syntax using some kind of key work start/end structure to allow use of underlying RDBMS system capabilities

While using the search capabilities of FileNet Content Platform Engine, we have found some cases where the delivered SQL API for FileNet limits the capabilities of the underlying database software. Examples include parallelism, top XXX (row num li...
about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration

Entry template rendering in BAW 23.0.2 and ICN 3.0.15 (on-prem)

Additional properties that are of type ‘object’, are being displayed even though they’re not part of a layout. It would be easier to have the feature to toggle this on / off on the fly as opposed to making changes to the target class.
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Build an integration between IBM Content Collector and ADP/ADP Extension

We have many uses case where a LOB has documents stored in a network share and they need to be moved to FileNet. Step 1. If we could use ICC to process the documents into ADP so that they could be classified and have metadata extracted.Step 2. Pas...
about 1 year ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Not under consideration

Ability to audit code changes in BAW.

We need to be able to trace 1. Who has changed the source code? 2. What time does the change occurred? 3. What has changed? That means every change that is made in the source code must be linked to an individual.This support does exist in Eclipse-...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

Pagination issue

Current functionality works that you always end up in the first page after a case closure/completion, but not in the page from which specific case was opened. It would be much better that after case closure you would end up in the same page from w...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Column naming visualization

Hello, After moving to IBAW, if column width is smaller then column name, name is shortened and "..." is put at its end. In previous version if column width was too small, column name was moved to the next line. If possible, we want to have old va...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Message ARS0081I should include AG fields that are set to be 'Logged'

Customers want to see field information in messages that show document information when documents are retrieved or printed
5 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

Cache the Solution information when the Solution is deployed

When a user logs on to Case Client, ICMAPIPlugin GetSolutionInformation is called to get the Solution information such as Case Types and Case properties. When user accesses Work page for Inbaskets, another same call is for Task Properties. So if t...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Bring back the right-click option to the Click Windows Command

This feature has been removed in the latest IBM RPA offering of 21.0.2 without a suitable replacement.
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Blueworks space/diagram creator history

System: Blueworks Live Actor: All Blueworks Live users Currently, the history of who created a space or a diagram is lost as soon as another person edits the space or the diagram. The history of who created the space/diagram is important to us bec...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration