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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

Make the administrative functions web-enabled

Content Collector (ICC) currently requires administrators or operations specialists to remote desktop directly to the servers to create/update/execute task routes and to gather logs. If the administrative interface was web-enabled, this would redu...
about 3 years ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Planned for future release

Migration path of runtime data between different database types.

The customer uses Oracle for the database of BAW and considers to change the database used by BAW from Oracle to MS SQL Server from system management perspective. When changing the database to MS SQL Server, the customer needs to migrate current r...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Implementation of a systemic lock and observability in rule approval.

Implementation of a systemic lock with dual control for rule approval, ensuring that the creation, modification, or deletion of parameterized rules in the ODM engine is reviewed. Ensuring that rules were reviewed and tested before implementing pro...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Not under consideration

Turn off Browser Autocomplete

The autocomplete attribute in HTML forms is used to control whether browsers should automatically fill in input fields with saved user data. When set off, it should prevent the browser from suggesting previously entered values Impact If autocomple...
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

Delete items in queue #SPGI #ClientEngineering #RPA

Being able to delete items with status "New" or "Pending" from the queue. This allows you to stop or shorten some executions where it is not necessary to go on processing items uplodaded in queue
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

When the rule property names are long, the user expects the details pane to adjust in width accordingly without having to resize manually

Our business users use Business console to managed and maintain their business rules. We have a sizable team of business users . An increasing feedback from the business users we have been receiving is their frustration on resize(expand) the rule ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Is a defect

Support multiple ICCSAP Instances for Container deployment

The ICCSAP Deployment on Containers shall support installation of multiple ICCSAP Instances. All those ICCSAP Instances shall be managed by a single Content Navigator deployment, as this is the situation also in Non-Container On-Prem deployments c...
about 3 years ago in Content Collector for SAP 0

Enable vulnerability scanning for CP4BA capabilities with WAS Automation platform

IBM WAS Automation is very effective to keep us ahead of the vulnerability scanning on IBM Websphere and apply fixpacks to fix those. it would be really great if all CP4BA capabilities such as P8, BAW etc. can be covered under the same platform fo...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Simplify the container image download procedure for BAW or Cloud Pak for BA

Hi IBM colleage, Start from Cloud Pak for BA 21.0.3, the customer cannot download the installation file or container image file directly from IBM Passport Advantage Portal. The cusotmer needs a lot of effort to download the Cloud Pak for BA or BA...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Not under consideration

Retaining the Content Type for migrated documents.

We have implemented ICC-SharePoint with FileNet. We were able to migrate the SharePoint documents to FileNet successfully (with Leave item and Replace link). However we have noticed that the migrated document's Content Type gets changed to 'Migrat...
over 1 year ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 1 Planned for future release