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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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Recognize automatically selectors

Instead of creating by yourself the selector or use the web inspector to create it, allow Click activities and Type activities (in browser and Desktop) to select the button or field to click or type and identificate automatically the selector.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

HTTP POST calls should be logged

When using the HTTP POST command, it would be useful for the log file to show the raw HTTP request (such as in curl format) so that issues can be easily debugged.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Access required for user deifned resource bundle variables in load&inline JS in coachview

Hi Team, Please provide access to get user defined resource bundle variables in load&inline js in coachview. If we store error messages of application in resource bundle and if we want to do validations within CV(inline js) we need to hardcode...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Cancel changes in Workflow Center Solutions

Currently, when opening an existing solution in Workflow Center, there is no option to exit out of the solution to release it, or to cancel any changes (on purpose or inadvertent) made by the developer that should not be saved or deployed. Just li...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide user-defined highlighting for activities in model view

Currently highlighting activities is only possible for roles. It would be great to be able to select a column / field (including optional mapped fields) for which the highlighting should apply. Description of the feature select which column/field ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Possibility to download social net in svg format

We are missing the option to download the social net in svg (xml) format. Description of the feature The download should include the graphical representation of the social net and the legend. The download should reflect the current selection in th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Search for processes by user/editor name

I repeatedly get asked the question, how can I search for a group of processes a specific person wrote/edited? We need this information for a variety of reasons, such as: - when someone leaves, seeing which processes they created and edited, so ...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Organization hierarchy for Managers Team in BPM

For current Team Filter Service and Team Retrieve Service, we cannot filter team members for managers team. For example, I want the staff's line manager to be in managers team, the staff is defined at runtime, so the managers team member decided b...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

To be able to highlight all activities and add the task type in bulk rather than having to do this individually

This is time consuming having to add the task type to the activity individually, This would benefit all editors, this could work by using the marquee select function to highlight all activities needed.
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 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