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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

Provide a REST API for audit log per artifact type

As an admin, I need to be able to provide an auditor all the list of changes that were performed for a specified artifact type
9 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Ability to perform a pre-check activity as part of the governance process app or independent to a governance process

As a blueprint editor, I want to be able to finish working with a blueprint and start a review process outside of BlueworksLive. As an editor I want to finish editing a blueprint and have the ability to trigger an external system or application ...
9 months ago in Blueworks Live 3 Needs more information

Ability to define expiration date of any artifact and a retention policy per artifact

Part 1: Expiration date As a user I want to be able to determine an expiration date of any artifact that is created: Blueprints, DMN, Process Apps, etc. As a user I would like to have a single view or report where I can see the list artifacts ...
9 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Planned for future release

Disable Processing of ALL annotations of documents for DaeJa Viewer

Content Navigator currently processes all annotations of a document for the DaeJa viewer, giving error messages when Annotations are not having XML format, and maybe more severe problems in case they have XML format, but not the one for DaeJa view...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Make UIDs searchable

Currently it is not possible to search for the unique ID (UID) of a process blueprint or any other artifact. As we are using the UID to identify and refer to our processes it would be very helpful if we could use it as well in the search function.
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Allow CSV mapping through API

We are currently trying to build an automated option for creating projects. For now, the only part we can't automate is the CSV mapping (we've already explored the option of using an IDP file, but we can only create an IDP after creating a project...
about 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Provide feature to mount volume from the management Console helm Chart

The management Console helm chart in BAMOE 9.3.1 does not provide featute to mount volume when deplying using the provided helm chart.
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

Want to edit default Process property - Risk

want to amend/edit the options as per their Banking need. so the requirement is to enable the edit option for the existing default Risk property, so they can amend the categories to align with their Bank’s standards. Risk is a default system prope...
5 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Functionality already exists

Remove hardcoded Operator-node affinity for temporary setup Pods to support standard OpenShift workload isolation

Summary of the Enhancement Modify the CP4BA Operator so that it no longer hardcodes node affinity to its own host node when deploying temporary pods (used for PVC mounting and JDBC driver updates) into the operand namespace. The temporary pod shou...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Enable Document Processing toolkit functionality within BAW workflows to support document field highlight interaction.

Currently in CP4BA, the Document Processing toolkit is only supported within Business Applications and is not intended for direct use inside Business Automation i.e (BAW aka workflow capability). However, there is a growing need to integrate advan...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration