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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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Ability for Data Tables and Lists to be referred to in parameterization within Scripts

When working with Datatables you're often locked in to many nested commands. A strong value add would be if we could refer to elements in parameterization. IE Dog Woof Cat Meow Horse Neigh ${vDataTable.cell(1,2)} would equal Cat. This would save c...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Parameter in Control Center for insert OCR/Captcha API-key

The Control Center can have an OCR and Captcha Api-Key configuration parameter, for all scripts to use automatically without the need to enter command by command Today if the customer has a large number of bots, they need to update command by c...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Functionality already exists

IBM Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) should be supported with IBM Case Manager (ICM) and Business Automation Workflow (BAW)

This is useful because customer would want to have an option that is different from using FileNet as a document repository. Customers will benefit from this idea by integrating CMOD with BAW to captures and stores documents.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

ODM 8.12.0.1 - Detailed System Requirements must indicate that it supports Liberty 23.0.0.3 and future fix packs as it does in 8.12.0.0

IBM Operational Decision Manager 8.12.0.1 - Detailed System Requirements must indicate that it supports Liberty v23.0.0.3 and future fix packs as it does in 8.12.0.0. https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity-reports/report/html/s...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Is a defect

An environment that only has ICN configured with Kerberos SSO, while everything is not configured with Kerberos SSO.

This will be useful for customer that wants to have an environment where ICN to be configured with Kerberos SSO and other products like BAW and CPE can be configured with other authentication methods such as basic authentication.
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

RES DW page needs to limit the max number of results returned

RES DW page needs to limit the number of results returned to the UI no matter what is queried by the UI. This is needed because currently the RES Console UI Pod crashes and our end users would not always be super technical or know they might be ru...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Is a defect

Allow "Instance owners" team for a BPD to be changed like the other "Expose to" teams for a BPD, for example via the Admin console.

Currently, the "Instance owners" team that can be defined on a BPD can only be changed through a snapshot deployment. Other teams that the BPD is exposed to, like process starters, can be changed via the Admin Console. Please add the "Instance own...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Download All Logs at once

It would be very helpful to be able to have a checkbox in the jobs section that would allow us to select one, some or all logs to be downloaded at once.
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Changeable export data encoding

Customer is using “Data export” in the UI toolkit.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=toolkit-data-export They use this to export table data as csv. They want to change the character encoding of the output csv. As far as I look into, the da...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

enhance windows client hold processing from system load folder

when selecting a specific load from the System Load and requesting it to show holds, it should also list implied holds. Release Holds option should have the ability to remove implied holds
8 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration