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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 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...

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Enhance Rule project compatibilities with dependant Maven nature XOM projects

When creating a XOM project derived from Maven, then a Rule project using that XOM in Rule Designer, the xom-libraries xom does not contain XOM project resources. It is actually a problem as resources might be needed at runtime when executing the ...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Update process with no outage

The opening of this AHA is due to the necessity to bring high availability to our internal process of updating and maintaining IBM RPA versions. Monthly the IBM RPA is updated to a new version. This update causes an outage during the maintenance ...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Conversion tool for Heritage Human Services in BPM

Many long-time customers have large numbers of heritage artifacts, such as Heritage Human Services. There is no tool available to convert Heritage Human Services to a CSHS with the SPARK toolkit; you would have to recreate the entire UI by hand. A...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

IBM BPM should support int64 format

In order to integrate with modern services (Blockchain/Hyperledger and a number of Watson services) using e.g. REST Outbound, IBM BPM should be able to support the int64 format for integer. This is an official Swagger format according to the Swagg...
about 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Planned for future release

Rename of variables in web pd

Allow the renaming of variables over the whole process app in the web pd. Including scripts.
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Create additional parameters in ars.cfg to be used specific for ARSLSYNC to separate them from normal LDAP config instead of being shared parameters for both LDAP & ARSLSYNC

Create additional parameters in ars.cfg to be used specific for ARSLSYNC to separate them from normal LDAP config instead of being shared parameters for both LDAP & ARSLSYNC Summary Currently the LDAP Parameters configured in ars.cfg locally o...
7 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Not under consideration

ACCE shouldn't pull the entire Isolated Region configuration initiating a Workflow Search

When a CPE environment has a lot of objects (queues, rosters, event logs, etc.) in an Isolated Region, initiating a new Workflow Search in ACCE will take a long time. This is not noticeable when a smaller number of objects exist, but gets exponent...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

DATACAP NAVIGATOR Add "OR" in the user filter

It would be very useful to be able to choose many clauses with an OR operator.Today we can only use an AND operator.
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

DATACAP Navigator applying a Filter on Jobmonitor column directly

We would like, as in many applications, to filter on column directly on the task monitor
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Saved filter should not be case senstive.

Without SSO, users must type their login in the exact same case, otherwise the saved filter won't appear.
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration