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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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Reuse Attachements

When adding attachments to an Activity box, the attachment is stored in File Management. If someone wants to associate that same attachment to another Activity box then they must upload and reattach the same document again. Instead, what should ha...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Customizing technical terms

Some technical terms used in PM tool are not so common in the finance industry (counts for English as well as German). It would be great to be able to re-define technical terms (e.g. as an enhanced translation function).
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Future consideration

All Warning and Errors in WebPD section

All errors and warning from BPM artifacts should be displayed in Warnings and Errors section of the Web PD. Now only a subset is displayed and multiple types of errors are missing e.g. errors in javascript editors of Views event handlers, warning ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add support for generating and deleting Database Connection ID's in the CM Administration Plug-in for Content Navigator

The CM System Administration client allows you to create and delete Database Connection IDs which creates these users in the CM repository. This is the functionality that is found under the Tools -> Manage Database Connection ID. We often need ...
7 months ago in Content Manager (CM8) 0

BAW REST API JSON response date-time format

I cannot specify PMR because it does not accept Case format in the RFE form, can it be fixed btw? :), the Case for this is TS003220320 All the details are in the Case in question but for this particular RFE we'd like for all BAW REST APIs to be ab...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to customize the process flow to have a clearer view of the process

No ability to customize the way that activities appear when there are multiple occurrences
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Future consideration

Logs created by Task mining agent does not use host ID for resource name

Logs should use Host ID as this could be a different user
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Display Order - reset after snapshot deploy

Make Dashboard Display Order independent from the application snapshot, see https://developer.ibm.com/recipes/tutorials/defaulting-custom-dashboards-in-ibm-bpm-process-portal/
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow user to disable the "snapshot" function

We understand that the snapshot function is the key to mutil-user editing. However, in same business scenario, client may prefer to not use it: which means all changes to the process will automatically update to every user. (without manually reset...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

Implement artefact deletion in Business Console update REST API

Decision Center REST API (update command) does not manage deletion of Rules artefact (package and rules). In order to synchronize a developer rulebase reference (SVN) and a Business Analyset rulebase reference (BC), we are using a CI integration (...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Future consideration