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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:

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,

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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 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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Please add support for the LDAP Provider: Oracle Unified Directory to FileNet Content Manager as a Container

My organization uses Oracle Unified Directory for LDAP. When configuring the IBM provided container of the CPE for Kubernetes it appears that only AD and Tivoli security directories are supported. Please add support for Oracle Unified Directory. h...
almost 5 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Delivered

Ability to copy and paste comments from/to the comments widget

Business requirement is to have A Comment Widget available on the screen (and not on click of a button) so as to make sure the case handler(s) can enter a manual comment at any time - Main requirement in this Comment Widget is that the case handle...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

增加基本的LDAP组织架构管理功能

希望IBM能够让UMS自带LDAP管理功能(包括LDAP服务),即可以让用户通过UMS添加单位、部门、人员,以树状结构进行管理。就是可以通过UMS直接管理LDAP。
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Delivered

Content services graph QL Api's for on-prem

this will helpful for more collaborations with FileNet.
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 2 Delivered

Implement line wrapping in portal web interface

In Process Portal web interface, there is not line wrapping implemented. Customer needs to enlarge the columen in order to see all the text.This line wrapping functionality should be implemented in one of the next releases.
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Enable the insertion of items in the native queue by HTTP Request.

On the IBM RPA tool system queue provider, the only way to put a message/intance in the queue, it's by the tool itself. It will be much better, if we could insert queue instances using HTTP Request, Rest or Soap. That way we can start de RPA proce...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Add rich text activity description to client-side human service

The heritage coach had the ability to access the rich text activity description via the processActivityRichDescription property of the TWTask object. However, the new client-side human service does not have the equivalent functionality, it only ha...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Edit Access Levels of Property Values

Be able to move property values up and down within the property.
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Delivered

Tree layout of exposed process in IBM BPM 8.5.7 Process Portal Dashboard

Currently the process in left navigation appears as vertical which is clumsy and its quite difficult to identify the right process to start with. To get rid of the long and clumsy list of processes, a professionally designed layout like Tree/Folde...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

ODM should support one of the latest Oracle database versions

We are running on one of the latest ODM versions - 8.10.3 and are using Oracle 12.1.0 as back end database. There is a DB upgrade taking place in our organization from current version to 19.6.0. The applications which ODM interacts with are all se...
about 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 5 Delivered