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 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...
Share feedback 7
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
Share feedback 0

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Allow using external data sources in the ibm rpa dashboard

Today, in order to create a dashboard that presents relevant information, we need to create a process in the orchestrator and add the values to be used in the dashboard as variables, however, in cases where the orchestrator is not used (e.g. sched...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Moving ENVs and servers along with library artifacts

TS002787495 When moving a library artifact, if that artifact or its dependency have reference to environment variable or server, this settings are not moved because they are not library items. The result is broken binding after the move. The devel...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Paging in import wizards for ENVs and Servers

Case TS002781598. If the environment has a lot of applications and toolkits, the timeout can occur in first page of import wizard when importing servers or environmental variables in application or toolkit settings in Web Process Designer. Current...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

SQL query in clear text

Pertaining to the current application, it was found that critical confidential data like username and password of DB, IP address and port of the DB are being transferred in clear text in the form JSON data. A malicious user can easily capture the ...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Read Excel dates as DateTime

Currently, when the robot reads a date that is in an Excel file it is interpreted as the raw number that Excel uses for dates (based on 1899 or something along those lines). This forces us to use a few commands just to convert it to DateTime and o...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Not Contains filter option for saved searches

Our internal business customer would like to filter saved searches by NOT contains rather than just Contains. I think they want to search tasks by various critera and then say that the task does not contain the word Build.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

ODM SMF 120 subtype 100 - set SMF120FLG bit 1 (SMFHDR_FLG) indicate subtype value for 100

We request that the WAS ODM SMF 120 subtype 100 data-recording be amended to include the IBM-standard SMF main-header bit-1 setting to denote that "subtype is valid". Consider that the WAS SMF 120 subtype 9 record applies to this standard.The IBM ...
about 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Order / visualize views by tag within a category

This RFE is related to the support ticket TS002635333. Since the new categorization of views in the Process designer (see https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS8JB4/com.ibm.wbpm.wle.editor.doc/topics/ccreatingviews_categories.html) view...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide default permission management functions for each started case instance

The permission logic used by case should come from acce. After authorizing the role permission in case, all users under the role can access each case instance by default, which will lead to data insecurity. In real work, the cases added by users d...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The default view in BPM continues to be valid

How to create a view in BPM? The default view will fail, that is, the user must use the created view. Even if the user innovates the view, the previous default view is used by default, and the contents in the new view cannot be edited. We believe ...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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