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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.


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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

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Automatically expand the visible script window when clicking into it (events, pre/post, etc.)

Currently a developer has 2 ways to see code not visible in a code window 1. Scroll inside the small 3 lines window (events) or the 10 line windows for pre/post script windows 2. click the up arrow which expands the window to 18 lines. Problems wi...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

IBM BAW, ODM, IID & FileNet on Azure, Amazon or Google Public Cloud.

Hi Team, We run full shop of IBM Products. We are also under process of migrating to public cloud. We have huge implementation of IBM BAW, ODM, IID & FileNet in our current projects. But, most of this products are not Public Cloud compatible. ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Functionality already exists

DC property to keep only the more recent reports and delete other ones

When we do automated test with Decision Center REST API, the number of reports can increase quickly. Limiting the number of reports with this property will help to keep the system stable (BDD, UI, AS ...).
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

We need a separate deploy role for ODM or access controls to enable/disable performing deploy operation for existing roles

Perform deploy needs the administrator role today. But the administrator role gives full access to all the projects. So we need access controls to enable/disable deploy operation for application roles or provide a deployment role to map users who ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Project specific modify access should work to publish rule changes from rule designer to Decision center

Today the user who wants to publish the changes from Rule Designer to Decision Center need the administrator role which gives full access to all the projects in the decision center which is a security issue. Users with create/modify/delete access ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Add Audit Trail to every Process Mining action

Users need to be able to audit every action performed in a Process Mining project. Editing tasks, rules and data sources may have a huge impact in an environment, so for every change we need to be able to track who performed and when.
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

New NFS storage can be added

Now when we use the cloud Pak environment, we find that we can't add NFS storage, but can only use the NFS storage configured when installing the environment, which is very inconvenient. Customers may have multiple storage devices, old NFS server...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Requesting that Session Timeout Send Users to Login Page

Currently the session timeout in the Decision Center and Decision Server UIs only sends the user to the login page on the first request they make after their session expires. We're requesting that the UIs automatically move the users to the login ...
over 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Functionality already exists

Creation of multi-layered custom properties

Currently custom properties can only be text or number properties (with one value). But there are multiple instances where the business requires to create properties which are multi-valued like a drop down or multi-choice or boolean values. There ...
about 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Functionality already exists

The Add button is placed at the start of the form. Users have to tab backwards to trigger the button when they complete entering the data

Place the button after the form TS012511147
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists