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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:

Search existing ideas

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,

Post your ideas
  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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Control how the IBM Content Navigator viewer properties panel is displayed

The customer would like to be able to control if the properties panel is displayed by default when the viewer is opened and edit the default size for the properties panel.
6 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

FileNet Viewer. Word Search inside of Viewer in Documents that are not PDFs

When preforming a CBR search or Simple Search for documents containing a text value or phrase, you are provided a hit list of the search. However, when you open a document that is NOT a PDF (ie: MS Word) you cannot search for the term inside of th...
6 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

View on the dates of the process

When filtering for a single practice, it would be useful to see the timestamp of individual activities in the model page in order to avoid to download a CSV to do analysis on the individual case.
6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

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...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 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...
6 months 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 ...
6 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Monitoring ODM-8.12 on certified kubernetes with mpMetrics-5.0 in ODM 8.12.00

We are trying to monitor ODM apps with mpMetrics functionality provided by OpenLiberty, following the documents below: https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/reference/feature/mpMetrics-5.0.html https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/introduction-monitori...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

PostgreSQL Support for CMOD MP

PostgreSQL is a database very common in customers. Currently, many clients are using this database to replace Oracle databases due to costs.
7 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Ability to restrict file types when adding (uploading) documents using Entry Templates.

The ability to restrict file types when attempting to add documents using Entry Templates can offer significant advantages to any organization such as below. 1) By limiting the types of files that can be uploaded, you can ensure that only relevant...
7 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Future consideration

Add Decision Center REST API to Generate Release Reports

We would like to request that a new Decision Center REST API be added to the platform that will generate a Rule Report PDF file similar to what occurs when running a query report within Decision Center. Initial version does not need to allow for q...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration