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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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ICN Datacap Plugin for Fingerprint Maintenance

I think the Datacap industry needs a way for Datacap Operators to perform all of the activities in the DStudio Zones tab but using ICN. If we had a plugin that allowed an operator to tweak zones and see FP stats that would be awesome.
7 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

CHDBPrune tool to support Case State property

Currently, CHDBPrune tool only take string value. An OOTB Case State provided by Case Manager is using integer instead of string. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/case-manager/5.3.3?topic=comibmcasemgmtapiconstants-casestate It would be great if CHDBPr...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Be able to delete and edit process's variables

We need to be able to delete and edit process variables in the orchestrator. When you create a process in the orchestrator, on this process you can and will create variables, but when you create a variable with the wrong name or wrong type, you w...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Support for Custom DPI scaling

Currently, it is not possible to run a bot if the DPI scaling is set to a custom scale (other than 100%). For attended bots, I think this would be a nice feature to include.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Delete Snapshots and Orphan Toolkits

Too many steps necessary to do housekeeping and managing the complex BPM applications that Commerzbank is deploying e.g. to delete a snapshot you first have to fire a REST call to get all snapshot names from the application... then you have to che...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

ICN Bookmark URL based search support for full text search (CSS) and search property hiding

We plan to integrate IBM Content Navigator (with FileNet Content Manager repository) into a business application through ICN bookmark URLs, according to the broader strategy to access and update in the context of business processes. Two important ...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Case supports "forms"

https://www.ibm.com/docs/zh/baw/22.x?topic=widgets-form-widget describes that forms are not supported, which affects the use of users, and it is hoped that this function will be supported in the OCP environment.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

IBM BAW - Providing a Process Portal search index command to re-index only active process instances and open tasks

providing a Process Portal search index command to re-index only active process instances and open tasks in IBM Business Automation Workflow
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Change the icon of the deactivated schedules on Projects

For now the strip icon is too thin and it's almost imperceptible when the schedule is activated or not. To improve visualization, this strip could be enlarged and this would resolve this issue or change the color of the deactivated to red instead ...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Show display name of resources instead of only IDs in Audit Log

Scenario 1: Creating a role in the non-productive environment (BR2). Created role "TESTE_FUNCAO". Screenshot_1_-_Creat.png At the moment the role is created, we would like to see in the LOG the reference of the name used at the moment ...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration