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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,

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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Allow Case workitem email notifications to open the item directly so the user can review and take action

Current email notification links direct the user to the in-basket instead of the worktime they need to process.
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Functionality already exists

Add merge cells feature in Table view for BAW

According to client business requirements, they are looking for merge cells feature in Table view (UI toolkit) based on some column data within the table.
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Multiple selected cell formatting in Rule Designer Decision Table

Currently, in Rule Designer, Decision Table(Legacy Editor) formatting options are limited to applying styles to whole table, a column or sing cell. it can be inefficient when we need to adjust the format of multiple cells at once. it would be bene...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Not under consideration

Snapshot deployment PALException should be more meaningful

Problem description: Snapshot deployment / installation always throw generic PALException exceptions and not the actual cause of the issue. You need to dig through logs to find the actual cause of the problem Improvement Proposal: Instead of the g...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Functions for combining two words.

There is following functions that it is able to use as analytics queries.”Queries”https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/process-mining/1.14.2?topic=analytics-queriesFunctions to combine two words is not present.For example, in terms of SQL statements, we ex...
6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Planned for future release

Functions for convert from date type to char type, from char type to date type.

There is following functions that it is able to use as analytics queries.”Queries”https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/process-mining/1.14.2?topic=analytics-queriesAccording to the above article, There is no functions to convert from date type to character...
6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Planned for future release

Streaming of WAV files in Content Navigator

We need the ability to stream WAV audio files in Content Navigator. These files are stored in FileNet and can be downloaded through Content Navigator. However other audio formats can be streamed through the viewer. Having WAV files also available ...
6 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Function to merge multiple graphs into a single graph

Measurements/SERVICETIME based on multiple criteria are calculated from the same activity.In this case, a graph can be generated for each SERVICETIME / measurement (start time and end time).We would like the function to integrate multiple generate...
6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Native scripting for the OnDemand Client

Please add native scripting for the CMOD OnDemand client. Other clients (Such as DocumentDirect for ViewDirect) have had this functionality for decades. The OLE and DDE APIs in the 10.5 version of the client are antiquated and difficult to program...
6 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

Align BAW, BAN and CPE supported mime types

Hi, to upload an Office document into a Document list from a Human service, we have to update the configuration (see link below). A complete mime types definition list exists in FileNet Engine, there's also a mime types definition list in Business...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration