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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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This is an enhancement request to the cleanup APIs

The report API response and the status API response don't have the start time, end time, time taken information. Adding that will be really helpful for us to test it in QA first, then plan the cleanup activity for production.Also in the status API...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Patch ruleapp deployment for rule releases

Instead of generating a full ruleapp jar all the time, if a patch file is created to deploy only the new changes (for both rule execution server and embedded execution, also for both file-based and DB-based deployment), it may help to optimize the...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Content Navigator Logs Login

Currently Content Navigator only shows logins for the system out when logging is set to Information level which also captures all performance logging which is unnecessary for our need and causes disk space constraints with large log file sizes. Th...
almost 4 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future 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

Separate Participants from Business Owners/Experts in Glossary (NOT DUPLICATE)

Currently Participants, Business Owners and Experts are all grouped together in the Glossary. Recently added feature allows us to "Warn users that enter non-preferred values", but it sets it for all three types. Participants are usually defined as...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 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

We want incremental purging and archival of process instances and associated data including documents into a separate environment for future reference.

We want to have incremental (online) backup of our processes which are purged and then stored into a separate archival environment (same database table structure as primary BAW environment). We are already aware of scripts that can be scheduled to...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow sorting of documents in policies by name

Within a policy documents are only sorted by date. The sorting shall also be possible by name of the document as e.g. in the process overview.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Add the user role as an input to the service cache

the current caching mechanism in BAW is not designed to take the user's roles into account when serving cached data. The caching mechanism uses only the service's input data as index for cached data. Our business requires the caching mechanism to ...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow search for part of words instead of whole word

Search does now work for Japanese : need to be able to search with parts of a word
about 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration