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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:

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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Fix .setValid() to work for all Input Views

Currently some UI Toolkit Views do not support .setValid() despite documentation stating it should. The following views as of v20.0.0.1 do not show a validation indication on a coach when using .setValid(): Check Box Group Input Group Multi Select...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow user to see all names (instead of just 10) and scroll through the list when reassigning a task in the Process Portal

Currently, when a user reassigns a task to another user, they only see a list of 10 names, even if there are more, and they must start typing a user's name in order to find it and click on it. My request would be to show the full list of the users...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Activity Type icons to appear outside the activity box to easily read text in box

Would be helpful if the Type icons are not placed inside the activity box, as it hinder legibility of the text of the box.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Request to be able to key in times manually in UI Toolkit Date/Time Picker

In the UI Toolkit for the Date/Time Picker, the user is not able to key in the time by hand after clicking the time symbol. Currently, they can only adjust the time with up and down arrows, which is both old fashioned and inefficient. Ideally we w...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add spinning icon ("fa-spin") support to Button View

There is a display/rendering issue when using the "fa-spin" class on a Button coach view icon. Adding "fa-spin" to an icon makes it spin. It is used internally by the Service Call coach for example. We would like to have the icon spin on buttons t...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Retain Inbasket Filters in Advanced Case Manager across user sessions

Currently the inbasket filters gets flushed out once the user logs off from the case manager client. The next time the user logs in, he has to again select the required inbasket filter property and provide the corresponding value to get the filter...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

API support for import / export of process maps.

API support for import / export of process maps.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Ant 1.7 Vulnerability issue in IBM Business Automation Manager instances

Hi Team, In CITI we have a vulnerability with ant 1.6 version and Ant 1.7 ,when we install IBM Business Automation Worklfow 19.0.0.3 and 20.0.0.2 versions we are able to see the ant 1.6 or 1.7 installed. The Ant component is found in the below loc...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Blueworks live Word Document Export

The export process to word functionality is so much limited that we can't use the generated report for anything, we need to add the following a. Due & Duration of task & decisions (no of months, days, hours etc.) b. Total No. of task &...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

IBM endorsed RPA sample bots are accessible from Studio

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over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration