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...
Share feedback 7
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
Share feedback 0

All ideas

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Adding BPMN 2.0 Shapes

There is only a limited selection of shapes BPMN 2.0 Shapes available. It would be beneficial to have the palette of all shapes. Also, having the ability to have separate swimlanes/pools and child swimlanes, this is currently covered by the specif...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

BWL Enhancement for Problem Prioritization

Our team uses advanced Lean Six Sigma techniques and BWL best practices for our process improvement engagements. One technique involved capturing process pain point in BWL by documenting the description along with severity and frequency.
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Button to go up in the sub hierarchy (breadcrumbs style)

When developing using multiple Subs, it is common to reuse a Sub in another and this might lead to some nested levels. Currently, going back to the previous Sub is painful, since this is what you can do: Go back to the Main of the script and try t...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Change the way to compact the PFS_BPD_CHANGE_LOG table

Our DBAs detect that the PFS does a compaction procedure every hour in BPM database executing this Query: DELETE FROM BPMPSRP1.PFS_BPD_CHANGE_LOG OLDER WHERE OLDER.CONSUMER_001 = 20 AND EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM BPMPSRP1.PFS_BPD_CHANGE_LOG YOUNGER WH...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow end edit when showing snapshots

When looking at process blueprint snapshots other than the current version the "Edit" (in view mode) and "End Edit" (in edit mode) icons are inactive. This might make sense for the view mode, but a user should be able to leave the edit mode in any...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Keep format when copying content from MS Word to BAW rich text editor

Our users use to copy/paste the content from MS Word to BAW rich text editor. Unfortunately, in some case the format get lost and they need to manually change it back to how it was. E.g.,if thay copy/paste a table froma a Word document, the table ...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to download KB in a command

We have the ability to upload a knowledgebase with a single command, but we don't have the ability to download a knowledgebase with a single command.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Add Service APIs to BAW Swagger UI page

At present on the BAW Swagger UI page, we are able to see links for System, Process and User Task. It will be beneficial to developers if a link for Service APIs is also added.
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Show linking processes on PDF process flowcharts

Please show "Linked Processes" (currently available when hovering over a process link on BWL) on Print to PDF versions of the process flowchart. When we print out PDFs of process maps to review with teams or post in office workspaces, the connecti...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Process Summary Update

Currently the process summary includes values from the process that are not just at the process level. Example: If I've added inputs and outputs at the activity level, they are included in the process summary in the Inputs and Outputs. To me this ...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

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