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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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Ability to Pin Folders to the Start Page

If like me, you have bot scripts saved in many different local folders, it makes it slow difficult to find bots you have worked on in the past. So it would be great to be able to pin a folders to the Start Page so you can quickly find the correct ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Data from the process app included in the reports

Process app can be launched for any blueprint, but to check the information included in the process app (who sent it, when it was sent, who was recipient) any user need to click the View Work History of a given blueprint. It`s a big limitation and...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

BAW Content Management - Ability to update document properties using JS API while using addVersion() method or a separate JS API

We currently using LiveConnect API to invoke Java packages from JavaScript to perform document property updates. LiveConnect feature is deprecated from BAW 19 version. We are trying to use .addDocument(String type , String name , String fileLocati...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

RES Console to support security config per multiple exec servers

This issue has become urgent as USAA failed a Security Audit, due to ODM RES security limitation. Customer has 5 Rule Execution Servers, each pertaining to different business partners. RuleApps for all 5 exec servers are configured to a single RES...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Repairing the "Mouse Command" Activity more specially "Point" parameter

I come across that this activity its not actually working as expected and I made a simple module to recalcuate the screen resolution. Its worth it if there is not avaiable selectors.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Is a defect

dynamic groups of users in IAM of cp4ba

create a dynamic user group to automatically add users to the IAM as they are created in the AD
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhance BPMoC rest API to allow activation of snapshots

I need to automated deployment of applications to our BPMoC instance. I am able to use the REST APIs documented here https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFPJS_8.6.0/com.ibm.wbpm.ref.doc/covw_bspace_ref.html to export a snapshot from de...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

Include decision model and business rules table when exporting process diagram as a PDF

In process blueprints where decision tasks are used, we would like to be able to see the decision model and the business rules table when we export or print the process diagram as a PDF. This will add value to the overall process visibility.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Support to apply a custom skin to the UI to match customers CI

Like in IBM Content Navigator, support the ability to add custom skins to the complete UI to match customers CI settings for logos, colors, fonts, etc.
over 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Future consideration

The "Reason" field is not listed after changing EPV in Server Admin/Admin Tools/Manage EPVs

After changing the value of an existing EPV in Server Admin/Admin Tools/Manage EPVs, we fill the reason field in. But in the list of the changed EPV does not display the reason field. Therefore we do not know why previous changes have been made. T...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration