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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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Web Recorder does not work with Firefox

Currently, we are told the Web Recorder in RPA Studio only works with Chrome Browser. It would be awesome if support were added for Firefox.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Work with complex data types for input/output API parameters

There are business cases where you need to work with complex data types like Data Tables when it comes to input/output API parameters. The idea is to add some data types to that mechanism, considering that we only support the following nowadays: D...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Allow User Stories to be programatically synchronised between BWL and external Project Management tools.

As a consultant within Technology Expert Labs, I frequently work with customers on process designs using Blueworks Live. It is standard practice to describe the functionality of each activity within BPMN process flows using one or 'User Stories'. ...
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 2 Delivered

log4j 1.x jar support ended. Upgrade log4j.jar versions to 2.15 and above

We understand that log4j1.x jars are used in the product not vulnerable but the older version of the jar can carry lot more other vulnerabilities.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

ODM 8.11: We need manual rule lock/unlock feature in BC

ODM 8.11 BC, doesn't have rule lock/unlock feature which is available in enterprise console. We need that future in BC too. This feature is useful for below scenarios, Rule writer's once rule change is completed, they lock the rule and request for...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Delivered

Manage default values in decision tables as previously possible in RTS

My users used to define default values in their decision table in RTS. They are not able to do it now in BC.
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Delivered

In Case Information widget in a Case, move documents to a parent folder

In a BAW application including case features management, we are using the "Case Information" Widget in the "Case details page". For the "Documents" tab, we want to be able to move one or many documents directly to the breadcrumb (folder) to a PARE...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Make required fields actually required in a CSHS

If you set visibility to "Required" for a field in a CSHS, the system only puts in an asterisk. You have to do a lot of work to make it actually become a required field! If I set a field to Required, it should be Required!
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Please add the ability to specify space permission on the API which can create or amend spaces

Please add the ability to define access user groups and their rights (create blueprints, Manage space permissions etc) when creating a new space, and the ability to update permission on existing spaces using the API
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Delivered

Text in the Case Comments cannot be copied

Hi, The case comments pop-up window does not allow copying the case comment text. Can this be fixed as soon as possible. Thank you.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered