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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

All ideas

Make it possible to set TaskAtRiskDate

Our customer is using the TaskAtRiskDate to determine which tasks needs to get immediate attention.A task at risk date which is calculated with historical duration of other tasks is useless for them.This needs to be calculated by logic which can d...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Bring back the right-click option to the Click Windows Command

This feature has been removed in the latest IBM RPA offering of 21.0.2 without a suitable replacement.
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Filenet PE PCC Configuration Changes Reverting After IBM BAW Solution Deployment

Subject: PCC Configuration Changes Reverting After IBM BAW Solution Deployment Description: After each deployment of our IBM BAW solution, we observe that the changes made in PCC (for example, filter changes like TPA_A, TPA_B, etc.) are reverted t...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Running multiple Datacap rulerunner threads on the same Rulerunner server calling IBMCMExtended actions is not supported.

Per documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/datacap/9.1.9?topic=actions-ibmcmextended Running multiple Datacap rulerunner threads on the same Rulerunner server calling IBMCMExtended actions is not supported. Only 1 thread per Datacap Rulerunner...
8 months ago in Content Manager (CM8) 1 Submitted

Enhance Viewer functionality

Currently In Blueworks live Viewers do not have the following functionality 1. Not able to export process maps as excel file( from folder level or from process) 2. Not able to do word export of the process maps 3. Details pane does not show meta d...
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

IBM Process Mining to enable custom calendar creation

We suggest IBM Process Mining enable users for using custom calendars for intervals calculation. For example, there are scenarios where there are certain filters and event identifiers that have different working hours. For example, in support case...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2 Functionality already exists

Support BAW Designer for CNCF

Business Automation Workflow has been made available on CNCF Kubernetes clusters. However, it's nowhere documented that this does not cover the development environment (workflow center). For consistency, clients ask for a CNCF version of the devel...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Runtimes with Multi-Tenant configuration

Having a runtime with a Multi-Tenant configuration (Pointing to more than one Tenant) can make it easier for Teams working on different environments (i.e. Development and Production) for testing stuff using the same runtime and speeding-up their P...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Analytics - Matrix with possibilities for handling more than 3 values

Currently, we can use the chart with a cardinality of 3. We can see templates using two and working perfectly, We aim to improve the user experience by having a dynamic component that accommodates more than three values and displays multiple metri...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

inject third-party IAST agents (specifically Black Duck) into the BAW/BPM containers within Cloud Pak for Business Automation

Our Information Security team has a requirement to integrate Synopsys Black Duck IAST (Interactive Application Security Testing) with our current IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation environment to scan our BPM workflows and applications. We to p...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Under review