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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

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BAW v23.02 version Process Admin console Health Management should revert back to old UI

BAW v23.02 version Process Admin console Health Management replace good UI with Swagger API tester UI, don't know the reason behind it. The old UI is much better in usability and feel. The Swagger UI doesn't look like product level quality and har...
28 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

IBM Content Collector for FileSystems available as Cloud Pak (Container Platform)

We recently received feedback from IBM Netherlands regarding the future of IBM Content Collector on Windows. The product is currently in 'maintenance mode', which means that no further development is taking place. Our organization makes extensive ...
7 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Not under consideration

Order Process instances by execution time, not name

When you're working with an orchestration process, you usually want to analyze the instances by date/time of execution, not necessarily by its name. Due to that, we can change the instance list to be ordered by date/time by default, not by name.
4 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Image and Custom Properties Display with single Click

Image and Custom Properties Display with single Click
11 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

Opening disposal schedule takes too long and crashes

When loading disposal schedules in the IER desktop UI the load itself can take a long time if there are a larger number of folders associated with the schedule. In the logs it can be seen that loading the schedule initiates the loading of properti...
11 days ago in Enterprise Records 0 Submitted

LDAP Sync on multiplatform CMOD: Enable wild card with user filter in ars.cfg.

Currently there is no wild card allowed under ARS_LDAP_USER_FILTER parameter in ars.cfg file. This feature is present in ARS_LDAP_GROUP_FILTER parameter. Because of this, the users and groups are able to independently sync to CMOD after arslsync i...
about 1 month ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

Display error messages in deployment report

During deployment time, if ruleset generation or deployment failed, for example GBRED0040E as a result of variable not initialized, the trace is shown in workspace log, not in Rule designer nor deployment report. The deployment report indicates "A...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

Integrate BAMOE canvas with bitbucket-server api

We're integrating the BAMOE canvas product with our systems, and we've found that the integration with Bitbucket is based only for the 2.0 cloud api. We have our process-models code in our on-premise bitbucket-servers, and that make impossible the...
2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Planned for future release

Exception Handling for the Scripts

My idea is to have something close to what we have in Blueprism today, a block. A block is a rectangular region that groups together all the stages that fall completely within it. A block can contain its own Recover Stage, which will handle except...
9 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Future consideration

In IBM Content Collector create a new collector that can connect to and archive content from S3 storage

S3 storage is becoming more frequently used for various applications and it would be useful to be able to access and archive content from this type of storage.
3 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Under review