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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

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request for the process restart with same process instance ID and last activity step

System: IBM BPM AdvancedActor: User needing new feature Description : The Customer want to process restart with same process id, last activity step.(the client do process restart for terminated process instance by mistake or circumstances.) becaus...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow images (that's stored in a SharePoint and added to Documentation with a link) to appear in Word Doc export

Our company does not have a public repository or SharePoint where we can store images/docs. Because we have used all the storage space in BWL before, a SharePoint has been set up to act as a repository for images and documentations. Users get a li...
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Configurable text / support link in notification mails

Task notification mails currently have the following line included at the end of the mail:'Please do not respond to this message. This mailbox is not monitored. If you have questions about this message, please contact Blueworks Live Support' (with...
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Japanese support for Automation Document Processing (ADP)

Automation Document Processing (ADP) is new capture solution on Cloud Pak for Business Automation. Its AI-OCR capability could be very competitive in Japanese market, but it does not support Japanese yet.
about 1 year ago in Automation Document Processing 0 Future consideration

OpenAPI compatibility: Ignore additional properties in REST responses

In OpenAPI, when additionalProperties is not specified for an object, the default behaviour is that any number of additional properties of any type are allowed.In typical implementations (for example Swagger Tools), the actual implementation simpl...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

provide more KPI thresholds

For now you can set 3 levels for KPI thresholds and these are coloured red-yellow-green. It would helpful if we were able to define and configure more levels and the colours used for display.
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Future consideration

Improve BPM Generated Process documentation to include CSHS and other services

Our aim is to create a support guide for our application that is generated directly from the application configuration data, code and documentation fields. Its important that the support guide is created direct from source as we need it the guide ...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add Timeout to the Test Suite comparison task

When you have huge / complex unordered collection being used in the Test Suite, after the Decision Runners finishes executing the scenario, the comparison phase might takes a huge amount of time.As a result, Decision Runner report page gets stuck ...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

It is recommended to provide one-button degradation function

After upgrading CP4BA, if the environment cannot be used due to serious BUG, we hope to provide one-button degradation function. For example, after I upgraded 21.03.ifix16 to ifix17, there was a serious bug that caused the production environment t...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Is a defect

Improve Studio UI for multiple screens

In Studio, when we drag 2nd script as new window, it doesn't provide panels like Toolbox, Variables, Output. Aim is to have multiple Studio windows on separate monitors. As we can run script only from beginning, we usually copy few lines from main...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration