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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 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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Request switch option to only show FILE item for "Add" button in "BPM Document List".

"Add" button is available in "BPM Document List" if "Allow create" is enabled. BPM Document List - IBM Documentation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=toolkit-bpm-document-list---Allow updates - Allow files in the list to be updated.--- W...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

Helper function to clear all validations in coach

We are using BPM 8.6.0 and would like to have a helper function to clear all the validations in the coach, something like bpmext.ui.clearInvalidViews() or bpmext.ui.resetInvalidViews() Currently, there is no simple way to do it. We need to use the...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

DATACAP Copy Tool Portable Package Path

We can't copy/past the path where we want the portable package to be. Instead, we must navigate to it.It would be much easier and faster to copy/past the path.
11 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Account level configuration of documentation font size

I am an admin for the Global Sales Incentives BlueWorks live account. We are long term users with a large, high volume usage account which is used daily by approximately 700 team members who use our account to learn and keep current on the Global ...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Manage complex type EPVs in ProcessAdmin

If you want to change EPV-Value in Process Admin, this is no problem for simple type EPVs. But if you want to change the value on a complex type EPV an exception is thrown:Exception in SystemOut.log: ControllerSer E CWLLG0004E: A Throwable was cau...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enable additional trace for ProcessAdmin EPV, Environment Varaiable for manual edits

We are using Business Automation Workflow 21.0.3 running on linux flavor, Application team listed the below concern to handle in BAW product. ibm should add more logger information so that if someone making a change in the processAdmin--> deplo...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Change Decision Center DB to Version Control System

It has been painful to synchronize the rule artifacts between the branches in the Decision Center and developer workspaces. If the developer is NOT following best practices while renaming, copying the rule artifacts, and making the changes to the ...
almost 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Auto flow doesn't work from parent task to sub process task

The autoflow from process task to sub-process task doesn't work between two different teams having common users. Whereas the auto flow from one process task to next process task between two different teams works.Our process design involves multipl...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Add IBM RPA chatbot integration for "Line" app

Request to add chatbot support for "Line" application. Integrating the chatbot with channels in IBM RPA on premises - IBM Documentationhttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rpa/21.0?topic=prem-integrating-chatbot-channels-in-rpa-premises
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Invalidate the CSHS URL in Process Center based on exposure and archived flags

Currently, the CSHS URLs have the following pattern: PROTOCOL://HOST:PORT/teamworks/executecf?modelID=1.&branchID=2063..You can look up the PROCESS_ID and BRANCH_ID in LSW_PROCESS and LSW_BRANCH table to create the URL and access the CSHS. Thi...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration