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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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Template filters ability to add to current filters, not just replace

When applying multiple filters to one model if you want to apply a template filter in addition to current filters you can't. You can only replace current filters with template, and then you have to add all other filters you want to apply. This is ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Planned for future release

Support for OpenLDAP

My customer, a Dutch Government Data Center, uses OpenLDAP in production. Due to her selection of CP4BA and CP4D she is forced to- also support IBM Security Directory Server or Microsoft Active Directory.- or manually maintain user / groups for ap...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Planned for future release

Allow pass thru of sql syntax using some kind of key work start/end structure to allow use of underlying RDBMS system capabilities

While using the search capabilities of FileNet Content Platform Engine, we have found some cases where the delivered SQL API for FileNet limits the capabilities of the underlying database software. Examples include parallelism, top XXX (row num li...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration

IBM CN for Microsoft Office task tab

IBM CN for Microsoft Office. The tasks tab will only show the sample FileNet review steps. We created our own Workflows, but those steps are not visible
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

recycle bin for IBM content navigator for microsoft office

recycle bin for IBM content navigator for microsoft office is not available. Documents can only be deleted.
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

New roles for Decision Center which has Read-Only Access

The customer has requested a new role to be created which has Read-Only access to the Decision Center. It would be like resMonitor role for RES console.The basic user role rtsAdmin has basic priviliges in DC which enable it to edit the rules and p...
over 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Add 'Item Type' data when exporting to Excel

When exporting data to Excel parameter 'Item Type' is missing at sheets 'Documentation' and 'Text Annotations'. Because the data 'Item Name' already exists in those sheets it would be very helpful for further analysis to add also the missing param...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining 7 Planned for future release

Exporting Marker values

In process modelling, activities can be marked with a Marker (Normal, MultiLoop, SimpleLoop). These values are not exported in Excel, when function Export Space is used. This means that not all process details can be analysed in excel. I suggest t...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

BAW container standalone need support naming database user with hyphen

The hyphen character is supported by postgresql to be used as user name, while when HSBC try use a service account which include hyphen character, BAW will treat it as database schema name also. Since the hyphen is the invalid character for databa...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0