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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 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
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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Feature to drag execution line to a previous execution line

Since we already have the ability to change variable value during execution, moving the cursor to a previous line after having its value changed would be very helpful for debugging purposes.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under 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

Creation of multi-layered custom properties

Currently custom properties can only be text or number properties (with one value). But there are multiple instances where the business requires to create properties which are multi-valued like a drop down or multi-choice or boolean values. There ...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Functionality already exists

Option required to include " Date" property along with Calendar option under Custom Process Properties

In Blue works live, we have options to include new text & number properties. How ever, we do not have option to include date properties (with calendar option). This data is essential for almost all the diagrams as we capture these details for ...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Critical Path Analysis

After inserting values for cycle or work time, the system should be able to visualise and calculate the critical path of a process.
about 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Work Page Inbasket Filter window(popup) to allow "Enter" Key to OK(submit) instead of having to scroll down to the bottom of the window to hit and to run the filter.

We are getting a lot of user request to have Case Manager Inbasket Filter window allow Enter Key to OK instead of having to scroll down to the bottom of the window to hit and to run the filter. As there are longer and longer list of filter paramet...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Need an option to define virtual categories

We have a use case to split a ruleset into multiple rulesets to reduce the complexity and also to execute the multiple rulesets in parallel and asyc based on the requirement for the same category. We will execute the rulesets for the same checkpoi...
over 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 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

Monitoring of Event Manager outside ProcessAdmin console

Need a way to monitor the status of event manager outside the ProcessAdmin console.
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Blueworks live user invite email

We updated our system to use ADP SSO ( single singon (instead of the standard username/password from the URL). When we grant access to users it generates default email to them and then we have to tell them to use SSO URL. Sometimes users forget ou...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration