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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

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Extract report from playback feature

Is there any way we can extract the process from playback feature in blueworks in multiple forms like pdf, excel etc along with word doc which is already existing.
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Fix the resume behavior in Process Inspector

In our BPM solution, we are using Process Inspector to manage the instance and handle the failed instances. The failed instances are visible in PI and we want to resume the instances from there.But PI is not able to resume all the failed instances...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

arsadmin encrypt/decrypt

To maintain the feel of consistency of arsadmin tool it would be welcome to add (unlock) sub modules of encrypt / decrypt when CMOD is configured with the encryption at rest.
10 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Not under consideration

Be able to keep the terminal connection open when using the command "execute script"

Today it is not possible to keep a terminal connection open when a main script calls another secondary one to execute, with the "Execute Script" command. It would be interesting to be able to share a terminal connection variable between scripts. W...
10 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Adjust Slovak translations in Case Client widgets and actions

Customer would like to enhance some of the provided product translations (Slovak language), which might be for end-users misleading. Here is the list of translations to change (in form of EN label - current SK label => newly proposed SK label):...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Using yaml to configure foundational services

The client would like to do the configuration of foundational services with ldap groups and Active Directory, that currently needs to be done via the UI. this is for CP4BA and CP4I They would like to have this defined in a declarative way, so they...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Defining Business Owners for Activities In the Edit Details

When defining activities, a user has to select existing or create new entries for each activity. If there are several activities that fall under the same Business Owner, it would be cool if there was a way to select multiple activities at once, if...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced SAP support

IBM RPA should provide full BAPI support for SAP customers
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhance the recorder feature

The current recorder approach is confusing/quirky/unintuitive. No guidance is provided for new users (e.g. for using control key) and the approach feels unfinished.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

Be Able to Identify the Different Workflow Types

Currently when you create workflows in BA Studio, there is no way to tell wether the new workflow is BPM or Case related. The only way one would know is that they are told or go through the various workflows until you stumble upon the one you want...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Functionality already exists