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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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Remove User Preferences when a User is Deleted

When a user is deleted from the Decision Center their user settings from the usersetting database table are not removed. When a user is deleted their user settings should be deleted as well.
19 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Is a defect

Request a configurable option to disable drag-and-drop in ICN.

Request to add a configurable option to disable the drag-and-drop feature in ICN. This is intended to prevent business users from unintentionally moving folders.
about 1 month ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Enhance the logging output for GraphQL client to include the response as well as the request in the logs.

Enhancing the logging of the GraphQL client to include the response will help trouble shoot issues related to requests. At this time a request can fail but there is no response output to determine why it failed. Development teams working with the ...
about 1 month ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 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

ACCE should allow the possibility to create a property template of type object with cardinality LIST.

ACCE should allow the possibility to create a property template of type object with cardinality LIST. In our case management system, we create data entities for people and organization that also contain information about their addresses. We find i...
20 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

create List<XX> for ODM variable set along with Array

When assigning a new variable type in a variable set, it is possible to define this variable as an Array. Would it be possible to add List as well so that the type in the variable set would be List<XX> instead of XX[]. See image below
20 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Add support for Unicode characters via the NVARCHAR data type to the out of the box SQL connectors in the System Data toolkit

We have a use case for needing to insert unicode characters into a MS SQL Server database. MS SQL Server supports unicode via the NVARCHAR data type, but we prefer to use parameterized queries and there is no supported NVARCHAR type for the SQLPar...
21 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Coach view ECMFolderList doesn't permit to filter the CMIS content

Workflow Capability permit to work with ECM servers through the usage of the CMIS protocol. We are building a CSHS interface that uses the coach view ECMFolderList. Since our ECM is FileNet, we decided to hide some folder implementing the isHidden...
2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

Business Automation Insights for orchestrate

We are considering using orchestrate as a means to perform simple back-office tasks, we would need to be able to monitor from a service perspective the processes performed in orchestrate - number of proceses, types (per business function), number ...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

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...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 2 Planned for future release