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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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There should be a feature to limit the number of workitems that can be created in a Case Client In-Basket.

There is pagination feature of maximum of 50 workitems per page in the In-basket. The performance of the In-Basket can be degraded when there are tens of thousands of workitems in the In-Basket. To improve the performance, there should be a limit ...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Future consideration

zRES logging behaviour - integration with z/OS Console

Hi all, ODM must be highly available (no outages allowed) and we must be able to react on very short notice (real-time) if a problem occurs. If ODM is not responding for whatever reason, all transactions will be blocked/cannot be executed. Current...
about 8 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Process Inspector: alphanumerical sorting the list of installed snapshots

In the left sidebar of the Process Inspector you can filter the instances based on certain Process App snapshots. The list of installed Process Apps are sorted, but for each Process App, the list of snapshots is not. (On some environments they see...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Would like be able to specify a default sort for ICN's work in-basket including whether the sort is descending.

This feature would allow users to have sort for the in-basket automatically applied without the user needing to click on the column headers.
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Create Decision Center Group with Specified Permission

We are successfully deploying ODM 8.12.0 Helm Charts in our managed Kubernetes environment.No Issue here. As per the instructions, we are using "group-security-configurations.xml" with Helm Chart to successfully create Groups/Users in Decision Cen...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Task mining - task classification - exclude task (not working)

Task classification - Exclude task (not working) In a situation where the user manually assigns a name to a task, in that case the option to exclude tasks does not work. Such a task should not proceed to the next steps (Project configuration)
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Is a defect

Improve Performance of "Show counts for all in-baskets" Option, which currently uses expensive getFilterCriteria calls

(REF: TS017813455 - Slower system performance after upgrading to BAW 23.0.2) After upgrading from BAW 22.0.1 to BAW 23.0.2, users are reporting slower performance in loading inbasket. Through TS017813455, it was found that this was due to a differ...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Runtimes with Multi-Tenant configuration

Having a runtime with a Multi-Tenant configuration (Pointing to more than one Tenant) can make it easier for Teams working on different environments (i.e. Development and Production) for testing stuff using the same runtime and speeding-up their P...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Add the ability for the Link Control to rename the file downloaded if it's used to open a file in a new tab

Dears, in the <a></a> html it can be used to open or download files if it's content as base64 is based to the <a> html tag and having the attribute "download" which is used to rename the downloaded file to whatever we need its na...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Leave browser instance open when it hits an error or stopped in debug

Currently when a browser instance hits an error it closes itself. This causes significant pain in trying to develop fast and debug any issues.
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration