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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 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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Usability of the product with Automation frameworks like DevOps Pipelines

Please refer the Case - TS005350441 Lack of API / ANT Tasks to upload and run the Test Suites is breaking our automations and causing huge efforts to manually upload, execute and validate the test reports. We have about 100+ Rule Projects and expe...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Functionality already exists

Recreate Query/Extractor for decision engine.

We need to create, deploy and execute a single ruleset using a custom application. The functionality must be the same as the Query/Extractor for classic rule projects, but we need to do this with the new decision engine.
almost 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Functionality already exists

Webhook for rule changes

IBM should provide webhooks to get notified with all the rule details to a custom application when a new rule is created, when an existing rule is modified or deleted. It should be simple configuration on the DC to configure any external REST appl...
almost 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 3 Functionality already exists

Add a filter to have the report of Standard Decision Service only

In the report tab, there is one link for the full report and one link for the report of main rules project. We have decision service with multiple project, in a multiple project, the main project don't have rules, the second link is empty. It woul...
almost 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Functionality already exists

Add "evaluate" tool to the IBM RPA Studio

The tool would have the same functionality as the "evaluate" command. The idea is that developers can test their evaluations during implementation and also during debugging, without the need to run the evaluate command on different occasions.. Sim...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Click command support for right-clicks and double right-clicks

Currently, the click command only supports left-click and double left-clicks. It could start supporting right-clicks and double right-clicks as well. This would remove the need for using real mouse inputs to simulate right-clicks and double right-...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Functionality already exists

HTDS Role-based access control management for decision services

We need to have HTDS services in RES console should have a provision to map roles and we should be able to secure them based on individual Decision Service and its consumers. Today, we manually map the roles and update HTDS EAR for redeployment. T...
almost 8 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Functionality already exists

longer retention for RPA Client services log files

AAClientService.log stores information only for few days.We request to retain the IBM RPA Client service logs for last few months such as the Control Room log files which are retained for months and rotated each day.
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Functionality already exists

Allow multiple tasks selection in My Team Performance for bulk assignment

On BAW v19.0.0.2, the Team Performance functionalities have been changed (UI / basic logic). One of the old functionalities present in "My team performance" on BPM v8.0.1, was the possibility to multiple select tasks and assign them to a user/grou...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Functionality already exists

1. The Regulatory Project must be configured so that it is impossible to modify or delete a record before the completion of its retention period or shorten the retention period

Defect 1 : Administrator is able to delete the ACTIVE document after declaring a document as record by removing a reference to the record from ACCEThe value of the the record information property is set to "unset" in the propery tabs next to the g...
about 5 years ago in Enterprise Records 0 Functionality already exists