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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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Allow passing in null value for Integer and Decimal Input Variables in Client Side Human Services

Client-Side Human Services (CSHS) currently initialize integer and decimal variable types to 0 for Input and Private variables that are undefined or null. This is different behavior from Heritage Human Services (HHS) which does not do this. Also S...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

DC Query for same business rule name

Customer is trying to find all business rules with list of rule names inside a certain package, however they need to also filter it by the parent folder (only validation or only computation) Find all business rules such that the name of the rule p...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Future consideration

DC Query Moving Rules

When you go to artifact, you have the ability to copy and move your rules. When you do a query however, you can only copy, there is no move feature. For example, using this query in the query tab, when selecting the rules, it doesn't have the opti...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Process portal - no calls to pfs requests when session is invalid

When you open a Process portal in the background you can see calls to PFS server. Sometimes our customer open process portal in many tabs. When the session is not longer valid the requests are still sending and always cause a errors. In the monito...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Master Key Rotation

FileNet CPE supports encryption at rest for content by integrating with Tales System as one of the option for Key management. As per the current feature available Master Keys stored in GCD can't be rotated. Due to this if they key gets compromised...
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Flexibility for a subset of users to build and run Blueworks Live reports on demand without the need for deep knowledge of API exports, including approvals.

Need easier report generation capabilities to support regulatory requirements. This is pretty standard functionality in the Saas space, so customer is hoping the engineers for BWL are already building something like this. Reporting and archiving o...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Support Dynamic Event Framework on BAW standalone container without BAI

This is the feature currently support on VM version, we need some way to get the events from BAW while we can't use BAI as it only support on Openshift
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Not able to merge changes specific to deployment query and operations from Decision Center Change activity into release.

Not able to deploy the changes specific to deployment query and operations from an ODM service Release in Decision Center into PROD RES because we are not able to merge the changes from Change Activity to Release. We upgraded to 8.11 version and t...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

For Sox Compliance also add IP address /device info when updating the rules

Many clients are taking SOX chapter 5 ( IT controls ) as a general guidelines for SOX. Chapter 5 best pratice is to keep not only who did the change but also the device info ( IP, device type ) of who changed the content ( in the case of ODM who c...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

About add new feature of BAW to fix this data type issue (>14 digits)

Dear team, We used control decimal in Toolket UI of BPM and we knew the reason for the error is enter too bigger than the allowed limitation 90000000000000. We are a customer in Vietnam, using Vietnam Dong, 1 USD ~ 24,000 VND, so We need a numb...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration