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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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Add property within the Deployment Environment configuraion properties file to disable data sources

When migrating exisiting configuration to new machines some DB's might needed to be blocked . In our case we have created a duplicate test environemnt for our BAW version so we needed some DB's data sources to be blocked.
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Needs more information

DATACAP - ICN - DatePicker should keep its value even if a Data Preparation Task Profile is executed.

It could be great that, on a scan panel, the date picker keeps its value (the current day) when any Data Preparation Task Profile is executed.At the moment, the Date Picker looses its data as soon as a Data Preparation Task Profile is executed so ...
9 months ago in Datacap 1 Needs more information

Positioning of boundary events and flow paths on collapsed/expanded sub-processes

When adding a boundary event to a sub-process, when you expand the sub-process the flow paths from the boundary events do not originate at the actual boundary events and instead sometimes appear center bottom of the expanded sub-process. This make...
about 2 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Needs more information

Support for new German Standard for electronic invoices

There is a Standard for Electronically sent Invoices in Germany called ZUGFeRD. The Standard uses PDF documents, into which a XML file with the invoice details is embedded. The usecase is that customers need to be able to access this XML file, (a)...
2 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Needs more information

Support for API's that are not listed in the documentation

The customer was able to find some endpoints that are not listed in the documentation. User management:import user in a tenant:• https://cpd-bpm-rpa.apps.<Cluster>/rpa/api/v1.0/pt- BR/user/importList users from tenant• https://cpd-bpm-rpa.ap...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Needs more information

Dashboards not marked as favorites in Process Portal removed as favorites after application deploy

Question When I deploy a new snapshot version of my Process Application, why do the dashboards that are marked favorite get removed as favorites? I have a dashboard in a Process App that I have marked as a favorite in Process Portal. When I deploy...
28 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Needs more information

Have an option to include a default output at the end of the table if no other conditions match. Similar to an else/default in a case/switch statement, but for decision tables.

Our team had been using the otherwise keyword to achieve a similar effect, but apparently this only works consistently when there are no blank spaces in multiple columns or if everything is in a single column? It would be nice for developers to ha...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Needs more information

Be able to add a team member to a case

Hi Actually we can't add a Team member to a closed case but in some case we need to do it like when a admin leave and want to give the full history to the person that will come after him.Can you guys make this possible ?
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Needs more information

Process Owner Assignment & Reporting

BWL is a Business process mapping Software. best Practice is that every Process should have a Business Owner. This can be assigned at the header level (the 'i' icon next to the process name). However, there is no easy way for Process Owners to fin...
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Needs more information

Need to add more details when user is updating "Edit a security configuration" on solution

As part of security auditing, our auditing team wants to see who is running the "Edit a security configuration" on solution. Also we want to see, actor, target, action, timestamp in the "Detail Security Configuration Log.log" All the below actions...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Needs more information