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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

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"Go To Designer" button in eclipse which enable Authors to go to last worked item is missing in WEB PD

Authors can not to go to their last opened/worked item (toolkit/PA service)like eclipse. "Go To Designer" button in eclipse which enable Authors to go to last worked item is missing in WEB PD. This impact efficiency of Authors as they have to spen...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Extend cloud ODM with RMI Java Call

In our premise environment we use ODM for saving decision table with RMI and execute it with soap call, we would like to have the same feature in ODM on Cloud
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Meta data fields - Free format text input

There are certain meta data fields in Blueworks which requires users to input free textFor e.g.. Risk Description, Controls etc...These fields are unlikely to be the same on different processes and will start to build up rapidly once we start buil...
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

WEB PD does not maintain last open session/page like eclipse PD and default always to process app tab

WEB PD does not maintain last page session like eclipse PD and default always to process app tab. For example : When you click on "back to workflow center" it always go to process app tab even you were in toolkits tabs last time or opened a toolki...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

artificial intelligence robots powered by quantum battery for snow removal etc

AI robots working for snow removal in countries like Canada, Russia, Europe-nations Provide etc
10 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Business Console Test Report window to filter out all passed test cases and only show those cases that failed.

Currently, the Business Console Test Report window has the ability to filter on entered search criteria. We would like to have either a keyword to enter (like "Failed") or some way to click on something that filters out all the successful tests an...
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1

Add bulk task reassign in the portal

The BPM currently allows the reassignment of a single task, but is lacking a bulk task reassign. Customers wanting to reassign multiple tasks.
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

change name of regex patten on regex builder

currently we can't change name of regex pattern on regex builder. developer should be able to cahnge name of regex patten. detailed steps are as follows. launch IBM RPA Studio. open regex builder from Tools > Regular Expression Builder click a...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under 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

Playback to include boundary events

When a playback is created and there's an activity or subprocess with boundary events the playback does not allow stepping through the boundary events. Being able to step through the boundary events during a playback will allow a better insight in...
10 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration