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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

Add support for MS SQL Server and/or AWS RDS for Business Automation Workflow (BAW) on Containers (not CP4BA).

We are an IBM partner, and our long-term IBM Case Management Federal customer is migrating from IBM Case Manager on a Linux environment to Containers on AWS. The backend database is MS SQL Server. Currently, BAW on Containers does not support MS S...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Mark documents that have annotation(s) in content lists with a symbol

Users would like to see in search result lists that a document has annotations without the need to open every document.
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Unlock Greater Flexibility and Resilience with the ability to manage Automatic Exception Handling (AEH) in Decision Center (DC)

Currently, AEH is exclusively controlled within Rule Designer, creating a bottleneck and limiting our ability to adapt quickly. By enabling AEH in Decision Center, you would grant business users the power to configure this setting, eliminating del...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Create a option to be able to change the clausule "pagesize" in a global way for the GraphQL API.

GraphQL API, limit the number of records returned to the client to 50. This il limit is only posible to modify, including the clausule "pagesize" in every query executed. There is not possible to change this value to increase the default 50 in a g...
7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Create a single official fix pack for CMIS on top of 3.0.7 iFix 07 where performance enhancement along with other fixes(security updates, stability fixes, and updated features)

Fine-tune the CM8 connection creation and connection pool management for CMIS in order to better handle higher concurrency and thread execution. Currently, we have observed slowness in establishing connections and contention when acquiring connect...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

optimize the blank pages as loading page in BPM Process Portal

As discussed, we have closed the case no TS001047503 and came for RFE on optimizing the blank pages as loading page in BPM Process Portal.
over 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Cigna would like the CPE to update the list of default mime type to include Apple's "heic" file types

Any customer who adds "heic" file type into the CPE
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

Ability to export information about all spaces and processes from front end

The user is looking for an alternative to API to get a report on spaces/ processes. Many users have been asking for a similar feature from front end time to time. ------- This user wants to report on Information such as - Process name - Last modif...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Integração com Google Planilhas

Google Planilhas tem quando certa relevância no mercado, nossa empresa por exemplo não usa mais o Microsoft Excel. Hoje as automações com Google Planilhas precisam ser feitas através da conversão do arquivo .gsheet para .xlsx, funciona até certo p...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Provide a containerized standalone Daeja Virtual Viewer option

Customers would like to deploy a standalone Daeja virtual viewer as a container. This software is provided as a standalone offering, as well as part of FileNet Content Manager...which in turn makes it available for BAW and ICP4BA...all of which ar...
about 5 years ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Future consideration