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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 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...
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

All ideas

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Automated communications/distribution lists

Create a comprehensive, responsive & automated way of communicating with the 'users' and developers of the bots that can also be adapted to notify certain groups when it wouldn't be appropriate to notify everyone. Examples of situations where ...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Export Search Results

When any search results are presented, allow user to export those results to an Excel workbook. 1. Perform search (spaces, processes, etc.) 2. Blueworks Live presents results 3. User clicks new "Export Results" button 4. User presented with dialog...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Using the browser's back and forward button to navigate all ICN features

Allow to use the browser's Back and Forward button to navigate through all ICN features for easier user navigation / experience.
8 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

Allow activities to be renamed when created

In the case detail "Activities" tab we can have many activities of the same type and it is then difficult for users to find their way. It should be possible to rename / customize the label of the activities when they are created to make the list ...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 6 Functionality already exists

ADD DB2 RRSAF SUPPORT

ALLOW MVSATTACHTYPE=RRSAF TO CLI.INI
8 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

WEB PD does not evaluate Decision gateway complex Condition for Unknown Variable/Property.

WEB PD does not evaluate Decision gateway complex Condition for Unknown Variable/Property. Please refer attached screen shot of WEB and eclipse PD for same gateway Condition. WEB PD is error prone . Authors does not know if variable/property...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Decision Gateway wiring does not show next step name in WEB PD

Decision Gateway wiring does not show next step name in WEB PD. Its very convenient feature for Authors while updating/editing large flows with hundreds of steps where multiple wirings coming out from decision gateways. This feature is available i...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

App dynamics integration with Cloud Pak for Business Automation

We are using AppDynamics as our enterprise monitoring tool , please enable an easy integration of AppDynamics with cloud pack.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Future consideration

Option to load in memory on start objects blocked by com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.disallowAllFileServing=true OR fileServingEnabled=false

WebSphere Application Server Control Procedures within our company require that file serving be disabled when at all possible. We have found EASPI and other files are loaded this way when ICN loads page side, i.e. during login. If there could be a...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

Make terminated instances recoverable

When a process instance is terminated it is not possible to recover the instance. This means that if an instance is terminated by accident it takes complex manual intervention to recover. If the number of instances terminated is large the task bec...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration