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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

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Implement Analysis function from RTS into BC

In RTS, we had a simple and very useful function: Analyze that shows error/warning on rules. Report it to BC
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Future consideration

Request to add Horizonatal configuration to radio button control

for the radio button control there's need to be a configuration option for displaying the buttons in horizontal order.
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Loading Avatar from LDAP

There is a function to load user information like mail address, job title etc. from LDAP into the user profile. There is no function to also load the Avatar from LDAP.
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

Allow different layouts in workspace to display full artifact name.

When displaying a workspace with a number of artifacts (process models, workspaces, decisions, etc.) that contain long names, those names are cut off no matter how much you zoom in or out. The only way to see the full name is to hover over the art...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future 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

Filter users on name or email address when removing them from user groups

When removing users from a user group, they are presented alphabetically by 'public' user name. To find a specific user can be very challenging as:- there is no filter capability- there are three lists, alpha sorted by license type.- users can (an...
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Unknown variables not marked as validation errors

We have the following scenario in the Web Process Designer: The development team usually needs to perform maintenance, cleaning and restructuring of the different ProcessApps, depending on the business requirements. For this we obviously need to ...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Have location identified for attachments colored in blue in File Management

In File Management, items that are marked blue does not have a location identified. It would be best if there was a location identified so that admin users can go to the process maps, determine if those attachments can be removed so that it can cl...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration