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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:

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 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
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...

All ideas

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?
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The "Set User Authentication" option is not available in WebPD when you remote debug into a PS.

Set User Authentication option is missing when process is run/debugged from remote process server. This option is used to run/debug human task with another test user id. Please refer PMR - TS006594335 for more details. It has videos & everythi...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Officially add Azure SQL to the list of supported Database

Azure SQL Database is the Cloud equivalent of Microsoft SQL Server (it uses the same core SQL Server database engine but is offered as a fully managed cloud service PAAS)Customer who wants to migrate their Microsoft SQL Server to the Cloud are lik...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Preventing Multiple Concurrent Openings of the Same Task in IBM Process Portal

when a user opens a task in Process Portal, it is still possible to open that same task again in another tab or browser window. If there is a built‑in configuration, setting, or recommended approach that allows user to restrict a task to only one ...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Advanced Search Features

Enhance the search abilities within BwL by adding advanced features such as:• Define search area: o Only current workspace o Include sub-workspaces• Search within: o Blueprint name o Within blueprint o Activities o Description Text o Labels o etc....
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Don’t remove feature RetePlus ordering modes

As the doc days (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/odm/8.11.0?topic=keywords-priority), RetePlus ordering modes are deprecated since OCM 8.6. Have not been removed yet in version 8.11.0 The wish is DON'T REMOVE this feature. It’s inherited from CRE, but...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 5 Functionality already exists

Allow multiple users to be selected at one time to archive

To manage our licenses I archive users who haven't used BWL in one year or more. That means selecting many users monthly to archive. It would be a significant time savings if I could select multiple users to archive at one time.
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Certification of pure storage WORM use via S3 or other method for FileNet Content manager and CMOD

This is a request to expand the available WORM storage vendors available
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

AI Enhancements - Process Classification Framework connection and guidance

AI Enhancements - Process Classification Framework connection and guidance, where our process maps fit into the framework we have in place
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 5 Under review

FileNet should support customer managed encryption key for AWS S3 bucket upload and download of content.

FileNet should have mechanism to keep the encryption keys and also able to manage multiple keys in case multiple storage areas. This feature helps to maintain corporate security mandates. It's my understanding that there are several customers requ...
over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Functionality already exists