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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

Add Ability to Open Active Subprocess in SVG API

BAMOE 8.0.5 and older versions - When a root process is instantiated that contains re-usable sub-process, and when the re-usable subprocess is active, the + icon on subprocess becomes clickable. When clicked, it launches another rest endpoint with...
6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

Enhancement Request - Enable Bulk Retrieval with CMOD REST API

CMOD REST API has capability to retrieve one document (docID) at a time, can it be enhanced to enable multiple doc retrievals like with arsdoc get?
11 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

Add vector indexing/deindexing as an event action

Vector indexing/deindexing is crucial for developers to maintain a minimally sized vector index. As of right now the only way to deindex a document is with a custom sweep job. That's fine for manually cleaning up a repository every once in a while...
11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Enforce Server-Side Validation and Output Encoding for Upload Metadata to Prevent XSS

Issue: The current implementation of the document upload functionality processes metadata parameters provided by the client without enforcing strict server-side validation. Fields such as PT_UPLOADED_DOC_TYPE, PT_BPM_TASK_ID, PT_ISSUANCE_DATE, and...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

FixPack Installation Modularity

Certain server components (e.g., RuleRunner) cannot be removed once the fixpack is installed, as the fixpack does not provide an uninstall wizard for individual components. ==> Impact: Reinstallation of all required components.
6 months ago in Datacap 1 Not under consideration

Have option to secure TCP communication between XU and RES console.

User doing port scan and find this port is not secure. Ideally there should be option to secure this port as well.
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Users inside the nested groups are unable to login unless they add the group directly

In an active directory group that have many other groups as members, the users inside the nested groups are unable to login unless they add the group directly.
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Ability to Add Custom Templates

As Blueworks is a tool that is used across our company, different departments projects are mapped from a specific view point or with a specific focus on how the Customer interacts with the process, or how a System functions etc. This leads to diff...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Content Navigator Configuration & Deployment tool support on Shared Network Drive

Customer has an architectural requirement to install and deploy Content Navigator on Shared Network Drive which is not a supported method until now.
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Ability to filter/find rules artifacts by their "LOCKED" status

Admins need a better way to find and unlock rules left locked by departing or vacationing employees. The current Query capability is close, but having the ability to actually filter by the locked status of a rule artifact would reduce the effort a...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration