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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 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

Showing 2701 of 2701

Implement EDS service for case properties in CSHS

Actually Implement EDS service for case properties in CSHS is not supported. Is it possible to implement EDS Service at Case Details Adapter (Human Services) as it already implemented at Case Details?
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support for distributed databases

We would like to request if distributed databases such as tdsql and GaussDB would be added to the database compatibility list for BAW and Datacap ?
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Simplify searching an individual Application Group

Searching today follows one of three paths: Based on ODCriteria values Based on SQL Based on an ODNamedQuery The only provision in ODWek to allow restricting searches to a given Application Group is via ODFolder.setApplGroupForSearchWithSQL(). My ...
over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Not under consideration

Support Hot-keys to launch attended bots

Support users to use hot-keys to start attended bot's they have listed in launcher. A Default Hot-Key for each bot should be managed by administrators and users should have the ability to overwrite it locally to fit personal needs.
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

Assign variable command

The assign variable command, when selecting the input variable to be configured, allows you to select or append the variable. This should be only select.
4 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Is a defect

Ask for required input when bot is executed from Launcher

When a bot has inputs and is running unattended, the control center will request parameters, but when the bot is running unattended through the Launcher, there is no way to request parameters.
4 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Task Mining - suggestions for automating micro-tasks

Automated prompts, for example: “this task takes an average of 3 minutes and occurs 100 times a day - it's worth automating.”
9 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Built-in root cause analysis

Automatic detection of the causes of process problems (e.g., delays, errors, bottlenecks) and recommendation of corrective actions.
9 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Integration with RPA tools in real time

Enabling automatic detection of locations where robots can replace manual labor and immediate implementation of automation, such as in UiPath or Automation Anywhere
9 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Change rest command prompt to use a secondary prompt for password entry

Our security policy is to not allow developers/admins to have production passwords. The rest command structure requires the password be entered, and entered in the clear. Change the prompt to recognize not including the password and then provide a...
4 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration