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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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there are duplicated verbalization in the same BOM class, only warning message

In case there are duplicated verbalization in the same BOM class, only warning message is reported when the duplicated phrase is used in an action phrase. It is difficult to locate the duplicated verbalization as warning messages tend to be ignore...
over 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Store last user logged in datetime information.

right now there is no data about last login datetime for BPM users Store last user logged in datetime information.
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Set SOAP fault in Web Service developed in Process Designer

Web service clients calling a Web Service developed in IBM Process Designer should be able to receive custom error messages based on error handling inside the service's implementation.Today, for any error in the service flow, the web service retur...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

multi select image feature from photo gallery in navigator mobile app

-What is the business scenario? users should be able to upload multiple images from mobile photo gallery the same way navigator web application allow users to upload multiple files. -Is the request only for iOS? Yes mainly for iOS but you should c...
12 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Coach View previews in the Process Designer should resolve variables

The web Process Designer incorporates preview files to improve the WYSIWYG view of the Coach layout. However, placing a coach view in a wrapper complicates the ability of the preview to work correctly. If a configuration option is promoted to the ...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Datacap Fastdoc ability to configure the Verify panel to show the Page Type.

1)Description - What would the requested feature do? On the FastDoc Verify panel, the document type is displayed at the top left corner of the panel. In the prior, 8.x version of Datacap, the page type was displayed rather than the document type. ...
12 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Control exposure for REST Automation Service from admin console

there is no way to remove exposure for a REST Automation service similar to Web Service Killian.Byrne (IBM) Jan 30, 2024, 15:08 Hi Amr, Thanks for joining me on the call today. I created a service flow yesterday and created an exposed automation r...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Increase the Integer Variable limit in BAWoC

Hi Team, Integer is one of the most important field where we use it to input Tax amount and our users are frequently using higher limit compared to allowed limit(2147483647 and -2147483647). It would be a great idea to increase this limit by double
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improve tenant integration

We would like to work with a 3-tier system as follows: 1. tenant = bank 2. Organisation = business domain 3. process = type of process by naming convention The handling of tenants could be improved to level such as organisations
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Future consideration

Remove inconsistency for activity work time resolution

When managing "activity working time", the smallest number you can store is 1 minute. When defining "working time" in BPA it offers to work in seconds. In order for both to work together appropriately, "activity working time" should also allow for...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Planned for future release