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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 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...

All ideas

Chatbot data source for Dashboard

The Dashboard feature of IBM RPA does not have a dedicate data source for chatbots. Creating dashboards for chatbots that use guided user interaction (i.e. limited options for the user) is simple enough, just using counters is enough. For chatbots...
about 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Make font and line color of linked processes/message events hypertext color (blue: active / purple: visited)

Viewers may not understand the functionalities of Blueworks Live, but keeping with web standards for hypertext links are generally blue/underlined or purple/underlined for visited links. Changing the fill color defeats the purpose of color-coding ...
7 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Make BAMOE Developer Tools VS code extension open source

The new version of the IBM BAMOE Developer Tools for VS Code is a great improvement over the classic editor, but it still has several bugs, problems, and known limitations that need to be addressed. This is generally true for the classic editor as...
7 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Not under consideration

Serviceability- Filter mapping parameter for Daeja Viewone

We need a parameter to map filters in Daeja. Daeja automatically identifies mime types and loads the document. In some cases it may identify a mime type based on the supported file type that is being viewed in Daeja. The file when viewed in Daeja ...
7 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted

Customizing BAStudio (100custom.xml) similar to BAW Runtime with a secret

IBM BAW Team, Including a large number of custom values directly in the CR YAML via the bastudio_custom_xml is not very efficient and increases the risk of errors if the entries are not placed correctly. The proposed idea is to separate these valu...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Option to disable Warnings for empty conditions on DT during deployment

During deployment, lots of warnings are displayed on deployment report: There is a warning "col: 4, line: 1: The Otherwise condition inverses a large number of conditions. Performance might be impacted." Which is expected if there are more than 50...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

ECM Doc store: Zipping(compress) and Downloading Multiple PDFs in CPFBA Workflow

When there are multiple pdfs listed in the doc list, make an option availble to download them all as a single zip file.
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Webservice request using .pfx certificate

We need IBM RPA to support performing a web service request passing a pfx certificate.Both commands need to have https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rpa/21.0?topic=web-http-request and https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rpa/21.0?topic=web-soap-request.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Federated Process portal task list refresh on events

Currently, the federated tasks list for work or any saved search is refreshed periodically (default: 60 seconds). This behavior is causing confusion for customers, as they are unsure whether their tasks are being completed until they manually refr...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Provide a Virtual Instance Configurable Limit on Number of Concurrent Sweeps Allowed

We have observed, within a site that if multiple sweeps are running and restarts of JVMs happen during sweep processing, all running sweeps can potentially realign to the first active JVM post restart and therefore overload the JVM/Server. In case...
over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration