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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.


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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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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...
9 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Bulk export capabilities for workflow details in Blueworks Live

As of now, it is possible to access the history of all workflow tasks on a process, attachments, etc., but only by opening them one by one in Blueworks Live. For compliance reasons, it is often required provide such details on a large number of w...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under consideration

Intuitive Error Handling with Retry Counter

Current Error handling and Recovery do not have building in counter to accommodate the retry mechanism. Can we build in some additional level of retry mechanism and finally
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Set a property on which the search result should be sorted in the IS-Connector for ICN

In IDM Desktop and ISTK there was the possibility to set a property on which the search result should be sorted. Unfortunately this is no longer possible in the IS-Connector for ICN. Our customer does not use ICN, but has his own frontend solution...
about 3 years ago in Content and Capture Services - other 4 Not under consideration

Using the browser's back and forward button to navigate all ICN features

Allow to use the browser's Back and Forward button to navigate through all ICN features for easier user navigation / experience.
9 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

Allow activities to be renamed when created

In the case detail "Activities" tab we can have many activities of the same type and it is then difficult for users to find their way. It should be possible to rename / customize the label of the activities when they are created to make the list ...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 6 Functionality already exists

ADD DB2 RRSAF SUPPORT

ALLOW MVSATTACHTYPE=RRSAF TO CLI.INI
9 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

WEB PD does not evaluate Decision gateway complex Condition for Unknown Variable/Property.

WEB PD does not evaluate Decision gateway complex Condition for Unknown Variable/Property. Please refer attached screen shot of WEB and eclipse PD for same gateway Condition. WEB PD is error prone . Authors does not know if variable/property...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Decision Gateway wiring does not show next step name in WEB PD

Decision Gateway wiring does not show next step name in WEB PD. Its very convenient feature for Authors while updating/editing large flows with hundreds of steps where multiple wirings coming out from decision gateways. This feature is available i...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Create Ability to control permissions related to BWL Glossary

Requesting a feature that allows BWL Admins to dictate which account users can create new Glossary values. Currently Contributors/Editors can type in items, and if there are typos or extra spaces, it will create two separate terms. We are requesti...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration