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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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Test SSAS on a SQLServer DB on AWS for Case Analyzer component

My client needs SQL Server and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) for their Case Analyzer component. They are moving to CP4BA and wanted to know if IBM supports this. I was told by support and product team that because it was not tested it is not...
about 4 hours ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Make emails for user invite, expired invite etc configurable so we can remove the name of the admin that invited and direct new user to our support service for any issues

When a user is invited, the name of the admin that invited is sent to the user in the invite. The email specifically say "You have been invited by {this admin name} to join your organization's Blueworks Live account, and "Contact {this admin name}...
about 5 hours ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

ARSDOC QUERY to provide mapped values

When running ARSDOC QUERY to extract data from CMOD the option to pull out the mapped values as displayed on the client. We have a use case where we want to get the mapped values and not the database values. Using CMOD REST is not the best tool fo...
about 6 hours ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

IBM Daeja Viewer support for "XRechnungen"

An xInvoice (short for xRechnung in German) is a standardized electronic invoice format specifically developed for exchanging invoices with government authorities and public institutions in Germany. It is based on European standards (EN 16931) and...
about 6 hours ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted

Import multiple XML files to topology module in AIOps via file observer

We seek to import multiple XML files in Topology module rather than JSON files.The file observer can ingest JSON format as provided in this documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cloud-pak-aiops/4.8.0?topic=jobs-file-observer). Howe...
about 10 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Audit function for Workflow Status Change

When using API to interact with workflow in kie server, there is no out-of-box function on recording the change time/user who did the change e.t.c. Can we add these functions? (One way to achieve it is to enlarge the AUDITTASKIMPL table to include...
about 13 hours ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Submitted

Improve Performance of "Show counts for all in-baskets" Option, which currently uses expensive getFilterCriteria calls

(REF: TS017813455 - Slower system performance after upgrading to BAW 23.0.2) After upgrading from BAW 22.0.1 to BAW 23.0.2, users are reporting slower performance in loading inbasket. Through TS017813455, it was found that this was due to a differ...
2 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

We need an OOTB process to bulk delete Cases and Case documents that have met retention guidelines

We need to make sure that records are disposed of in a timely manner and currently there is no straightforward process to delete the Case, Case documents and workflow assets. The discussion here about the Case Rest API seems to indicate it address...
10 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

ICN should allow users to modify the document class via Entry Template

We have a business user case in which we aim to let users rectify initial categorization mistakes or switch categories to sub-document types. However, IBM Content Navigator (ICN) lacks a built-in feature for end-users to alter document class, nece...
24 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

It would be great to export metadatas into a UTF-8 without BOM txt file.

By default the export actions only permits to export into a UTF-8 BOM or UTF-16 BOM.It would be great to export metadatas into a UTF-8 without BOM txt file. And why not allowing other encoding (ie : ANSI, CP1252) ? It could be a modification of th...
about 1 month ago in Datacap 0 Submitted