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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 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...

All ideas

Description popup for Participant

Just like popups all over BwL, it would be nice to have a popup with the description for Participant when viewing Process Diagram/Map/etc. This would be helpful when it's necessary to abbreviate Participant names (like System as a Participant).
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 5 Functionality already exists

Ability to process dates in milliseconds from the data set

Considering that some Excel files may convert the dates into milliseconds, this idea is to allow Process Mining to import the data set to be imported with dates set in milliseconds.
9 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Please continue MAPI support to upload OnDemand files to Outlook as an attachment.

Hi Team, Please continue to support MAPI function in the CMOD application despite Microsoft disconnecting in the near future. The end users love the 'send' feature in the CMOD app and with the 'new' outlook being introduced it does not allow users...
9 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

Enabling Client-Cert authentication for ODM RES running on AWS EKS (Certified Kubernetes)

Customer needs to configure Client-Cert Authentication. They are looking forward to steps relevant to containerized ODM RES on AWS EKS (Certified Kubernetes), on how to enable, and configure Client-Cert authentication for api endpoints of rules pa...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Bulk upload new users – would like to invite more than one new user at a time

Bulk upload new users – would like to invite more than one new user at a time
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1

Additional BWL Admin functions

The Admin panel for BWL needs additional capabilities to properly manage users.-There should be a button to send a notification to all users (or a defined subgroup)-There should be a way to define a message for users to see when they log in within...
about 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Enhance the "Recognize Image Text or PDF" command to allow configurable timeout settings or automatic handling of large/resource-intensive images.

Currently, the command fails with a "Task cancelled" error when processing high-resolution images (4032x3024) due to a fixed 60-second timeout. This requires manual workarounds like pre-processing images via PowerShell. The enhancement would: Intr...
9 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Auto refresh team member if team retrieval service fetches data from database.

Team members are not auto refreshed if team retrieval service fetches data from database. How to enable to real time auto refresh of teams when team retrieval service is used.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

ODM option to generate WSDL either of "document" or "document-literal wrapped" type.

IBM BAW team identified an incompatibility with WSDL generated by IBM ODM while importing that WSDL in IBM BAW environment, if the Target environment of the toolkit is set to "TRAD or CON" "Traditional or Container". It was working perfectly as ex...
almost 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Option to Include Link Location Name On Process Diagram When Printing PDF

When viewing a printed set of linked process diagrams as a PDF, there is no way for the viewer to know what process diagram a linked process activity connects to. Adding a text box to the linked process activity or some other visual cue with the l...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration