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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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

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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Support full Kafka protocol for event - key and header support missing

Our BAMOE 8.0.5 deployment on OpenShift is integrated with an external Kafka cluster. In the processes that are running in our BAMOE instance, tasks shall be used to send and receive Kafka messages, containing a message value and a specific messag...
2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 2 Planned for future release

Make Simple Search Filters configurable.

This would improve the usability of the Simple Search for Org.
5 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Ability to adjust the number case variants table limits on widgets

Nowadays, the case variant tables from the widgets perspective have a limit of 100 rows being show. If the user has 100+ case variants, they won't be able to see the whole table and all the percentages there. This idea is to make the limit adjusta...
about 1 month ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release

Exception Handling for the Scripts

My idea is to have something close to what we have in Blueprism today, a block. A block is a rectangular region that groups together all the stages that fall completely within it. A block can contain its own Recover Stage, which will handle except...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Future consideration

AI Enhancements - Process Classification Framework connection and guidance

AI Enhancements - Process Classification Framework connection and guidance, where our process maps fit into the framework we have in place
about 2 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Needs more information

Task list search to be applied for Defined properties only

Task List Search for Defined Properties Only: Currently, when performing a task list search using Elastic Search, it queries all the properties of the case, not just the ones displayed in the task list. Is it possible to limit the search to only t...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Under review

Revert input/output variable mapping to classic view to remove extra steps

Users are facing challenges with BAW 23.0.1's new variable mapping process, finding it cumbersome due to extra clicks and complexity, especially in complex projects. The classic mapping offered quicker, more straightforward access to variable usag...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

configuration to disable ANY option in foldersearch

In case a user switches in a folder via “Property options” from ALL to ANY of the properties the search will be executed with an OR condition for each search field. Mandatory search fields are designed to force the user to use particular search fi...
20 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

IBM Content Collector for FileSystems available as Cloud Pak (Container Platform)

We recently received feedback from IBM Netherlands regarding the future of IBM Content Collector on Windows. The product is currently in 'maintenance mode', which means that no further development is taking place. Our organization makes extensive ...
about 1 year ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Not under consideration

Online Backup and Restore

Availability of online backup and restore features and capabilities in Cloud Pak for Business Automation