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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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Allow sorting of documents in policies by name

Within a policy documents are only sorted by date. The sorting shall also be possible by name of the document as e.g. in the process overview.
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

- How to Automate IBM Datacap application Manager entries with out manual intervention including Admin and Engine Databases (Microsoft SQL server)

Hi Team, Case - TS008622751 is raised on the same We had discussion with Aditya from IBM Support on How to automate Application manager and to understand feature request Aditya was mentioning that we should submit a feature request with the ac...
over 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Enhancement request to introduce a new http / https based health check page to ensure that TMS service is up and responsive.

Datacap Taskmaster servers are setup for using IBM Cloud Load Balancer. Enhancement request to introduce a new http / https based health check page to ensure that TMS service is up and responsive. Currently Datacap do not have any health check for...
over 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Graphical Data Objects (per BPMN spec) instead of or in addition to Input / Output properties.

The BPMN specification defines the Data Object and Associations that allow the author to clearly articulate the production/consumption/association of abstracted data artifacts. Since most business processes are data aggregations especially across ...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Object Store Table Schemas for Datacap

Ad per customer this will help customer database team to take refrence
over 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Option to Merge the CSHS, Service Flow and process from one track to other

Need an option to merge CSHS, Service Flow and Processes from one track to another.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Admin Ability to Disable File Attachment

Admin users should have the ability to disable file attachment in spaces they control.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

CMOD 88 record needs consistency

depending on what causes the failure, the job name and job number that failed is missing. These always need to be reported. For example if the application group name was invalid we get Application Group Failed Load: Name(Xdftest) LoadId() File(/PR...
over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

API: Determining what changes have been done to a rule from previous version.

Finding a way to determine what changes have been done to a rule from last version. We can see this manually in Timeline -> Compare tool in BC, but, I am looking for a programmatical way to find changes in rules from last version/deployment. We...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Better support for Data Row variables

The Data Row variable type already exists, but there is no command to get a complete row from a table, for example. This would be useful when passing parameters from one script to another, like in a transactional process where the Data Row is the ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration