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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:

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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Audit trail of all activities on IBM RPA

Due to statutory requirement, we are required to keep the audit trail of all activities performed by any administrators / users in the tool, including Date/Time, Host IP, User ID, Property / Item on which action performed, Action performed, Value ...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Remove user groups from spaces when the user group is deleted/archived

When a User Group is deleted/archived, they should be removed from any spaces that they had access to. When we remove a user group, the user group shows up with access on spaces they had access to, although they show up grayed out with a little re...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Functionality already exists

Add comment field to Variables

It would be great if variables had support for comments and have the comment shown when opening the variable from the Variables panel, similar to what already happens with comments in commands.
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Functionality already exists

BC: Showing custom properties in explore view

In BC, "Decision Artifacts" explore view & query results view, we want to show custom properties. Based on the config (custom properties to be showed in explore view), it should have columns for custom properties with usual sort option.
about 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Functionality already exists

Orchestrator

Have a webpage with easy url access to be able to explore the status of robots, logs, executions, queues, assets... You can create queues, assets (numeric, integer, credentials)
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Variable types (basic ones)

Add new types of variables, such as integer (instead of number), string (instead of text), boolean, object, dictionary, collection...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists

REFRAMEWORK

Create a reframework that developers can use. This reframework is a workflow with 4 states: init, get transactions, process and end process. In the init one we read a Config file (Excel) that is basically a dictionary, RPA read it and create a dic...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Database connection

Generic command to connect to different database through connection string
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Exclude glossary updates from model Last Modified metadata

It would be very useful to be able to use the Last Modified Date property of artefacts to show when a model should be reviewed, but this is not currently possible as every glossary update can change this date. Please consider having a modified dat...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Functionality already exists

HPE/Scality RING storage support with FileNet/P8

Case number: TS006578497 FileNet /P8 (current version) on Linux with a remote Oracle 19c database We are planning to migrate a storage platform for the FileNet/P8 app as follows: From: Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) - REST API To: HPE/Scal...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Functionality already exists