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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,

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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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Fix Automation Anywhere Diagnostic Utility

Our team is troubleshooting some different issues on our botrunners and the Automation Anywhere Diagnostic Utility would have been a huge help in pinpointing the root cause. Automation Anywhere's Diagnostic Utility is an automated checkpoint verif...
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Delivered

RPA - Support for language: Portuguese BR

The support to language Portuguese - BR should be available for RPA v11.0.0.8 On the link bellow (Automation Anywhere doc) is saying that Portuguese - BR is a supported language. It is on the column Internationalization (Operating System and Chara...
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Delivered

Copy Activities Across Tabs

Sometimes when an activity is copied across tabs, either an old copied activity is placed or Blueworks Live doesn't recognize that anything that has been copied.
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Delivered

Provide an option to view/filter BOM/Vocabulary data from the DC UI

Provide an option to view/filter BOM/Vocabulary data from the DC UI (Business Console), it will be useful to verify after publishing the data to DC and also to debug issues.
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Delivered

Restoration of deleted attachments in case of system failure

Our team uses BWL for creating and storing DTPs, which contain lots of images and illustrations for its better understanding (named Attachments in Blueworks). We have many Editors and they create maps and documentation of their processes on their ...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Delivered

Cleanup unused bom/xom/b2x in the ruleset jar

When we extract a ruleapp from decision center, the ruleset jar contains all the bom (com.ibm.ia.engine.bom)/b2x(b2x.b2x)/in[out] parameters(com.ibm.rules.engine.signature.xml) under the "\ruleset.dsar\RULES_ENGINE\default\resources\ruleset\" fold...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 4 Delivered

Populate meta data of used xom/xom variables/xom methods for each rule and associated ruleflows in the extracted ruleset

Kindly populate metadata about the used xom/xom variables/xom methods for each rule and the associated rule flow conditions in the extracted ruleset.
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Delivered

Collapse Banners and Menu Line When editing

It would be nice if there was a way to minimize the screen space taken up by the bwl menus and submenus when editing maps. Kind of like the ribbon can be expaned or collapsed in word. Although blueworks has the Zoom capability and I can also Zoom ...
almost 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Delivered

Ability to make discretionary case activity name Uneditable Or Remove the Field "Enter A Name" while creating an activity

We are using IBm Business Automation Workflow ( On Prem) V 19.0.0.1. When we Add a Activity to a case, there are 2 optiosn that appear :1. Select a Type2. Enter a name When value in Select a Type is selected from the Dropdown, it is automatically ...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Disaster recovery about AA Control Room database

Last time I ask the questions about housekeeping.https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5000z00001LfcutAAB/aa-housekeepingWe are recommended not to delete the data in AA database. But customer IT still want to know how to recover the system if the d...
about 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Delivered