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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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Ability to temporarily suspend IP address lockdown without losing configuration

At present IP address lockdown has no memory; i.e. if you temporarily switch it off for what ever reason you lose all the settings and need to retype them instead of just switching back on.
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Put Text on Gateways in Front of the Arrows

The text on the gateways is always behind the arrow and can be difficult to read. You need to adjust the wording a bit to get it to show more clearly, or move the arrows so there is no arrow coming out from the bottom of the gateway. The latter is...
almost 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 6 Future consideration

Workflow Access

Our organization uses the workflow to route process maps to the Process Owners and Process Managers for approval. We use the approval as evidence for our risk and control assessments but only the people included in the approval flow can see the ev...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

REST API to handle invitation expiration / resend

There are no REST API for handling the invited user.An API to retrieve the list of expired invitation + expiration date, + a REST API to resend the invitation + a REST API to delete the invited user would help account administrators handling huge ...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Attach to window when using "Start Browser" action

When working with websites, there are many time when regular browser actions do not work, so window actions are needed, such as send keys (not webkeys). When using Start browser the window is not attached and it causes a conflict if another action...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Not under consideration

Create option to connect to MongoDB through SSL for Self-Signed Certificates

The option to connect to an external MongoDB for Process Mining is vital for a larger workload, but to be the most secure, providing the option to connect through SSL while using a self-signed certificate should be available.
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining 1

New languages support in IBM Navigator

IBM Navigator already supports a lot of languages (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/content-navigator/2.0.3?topic=navigator-language-support-content), but there is a need from clients in CEE to have their local languages supported as well. They are loo...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Export Search Results

I would like to be able to export the search result options from a process and a space search. Right now the search results are not exportable. I have to manually access each record to get what I need. I'd like to be able to key in a search term t...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

XU's are down when we had RES console down

Hi Team, we had a major outage for one day on our platform because our DB has a problem with high CPU usage which are using for res consoles and RTS schema. we are researching all ways to look at any slow executing queries that are consuming more...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

IBM CN for Microsoft Office task tab

IBM CN for Microsoft Office. The tasks tab will only show the sample FileNet review steps. We created our own Workflows, but those steps are not visible
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration