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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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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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
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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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Ability to select API Tester Application in testing Change or Validation Activity

Integrate functionality to allow the user to select a third-party API testing application (e.g., Postman, SoapUI, etc.) in the Test tab of a Change Activity to test business rules. Selecting an API testing application will automatically create a R...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Space Excel Export Numbering

On the Excel Export from a Space the supplementary worksheets like Process Items, Stakeholders, Systems etc… lists the Item Name that relates to each, but no unique ID for that Item Name. So, if in a given diagram where you have more than one acti...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

We need the support "Integrating with IBM BAW by implementing a robot task" on Japanese environment.

Integration with IBM Business Automation Workflow(BAW) and Automation Anywhere Enterprise(AAE) is important function. That discriminates IBM RPA with AA and other RPA tools include original AAE. "Implementing a robot task for a basic setup" functi...
almost 6 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Functionality already exists

Support automatic retries for service invocations

Support automatic retries for service invocations. Services can be temporarily unavailable or they can timeout (for a variety of reasons). It would be helpful to be able to configure n number of automatic retries for a service in a service flow in...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Split combined documents

During home loans application to a bank, applicant scans and submit ID, account statement, payslip, proof of address as one document. The homeloan assessor wants to automate the processing of splitting the documents and classify
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Add Task instance and Process instance REST APIs to the Operations APIs

Currently https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=update-put and https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=instance-put-setdata are not available as Operations APIs here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=apis-operations-rest-reference...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improve usability of RES REST API method /deleteDecisionTraces (with optional selection filters)

RES Console REST API method /deleteDecisionTraces (with optional selection filters) only accepts start and end date filter as an epoch time stamp in milliseconds. and requires customer to use an external utility/web site such as https://www.epochc...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Support JSON-to-XML and XML-to-JSON conversions directly in BAW (without the need to import a 3rd party library)

Support JSON-to-XML and XML-to-JSON conversions directly in BAW (without the need to import a 3rd party library)
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Update BAW swidtags with each version release

IBM only updates the SWIDTAG version for certain major versions which makes software discovery for vendors such as BigFix impossible to be able to report accurately on currently installed software. Discovery issues within BAW could be fixed with p...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Tracking groups do not support complex BOs

Tracking groups currently only support simple variables. They need to support complex BOs as mapping each field individually for a large tracking group is painful and cumbersome.
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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