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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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"Everyone" option of saved search can be hidden

Currently, the "Everyone" option of the Saved Search share with selection can be searched out, and the saved search will be shared with everyone. But so far, there is no scenario that need to share a user created saved search with everyone. Actual...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Check the compatibility on DB2 i servers

In current environment we have several IBM i servers which are used as our DB2 servers. there for we would like to see the compatibility of the Business Automation workflow on those i servers1. DB2 Edition -iSeries2. DB2 version -iSeries3. DB2 F...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Vertical Text in Tables

Thankyou for all the lastest weeks in Blueworks Live, I have just used the "adding a table feature" in my Workflow Documentation. Both tables were quite large and it would have helped if I could have positioned a text heading vertically. At the mo...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

To capture emotions in BWL

To have emotions (Emoji Symbols) in Blueworks Live for Customer Journey Maps and it should be freely place able anywhere in the map.
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Users with Read permission can export snapshots from the Process Center console.

System : IBM Business Automation Workflow Enterprise 8.6.1.19001 / 20190329-121307 Users with Read permission can export snapshots from the Process Center console. How can we restrict a user from exporting the application/toolkit from Process Cent...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add option to views in UI Toolkit that have "Items from Service" to not run on page load

The BPM UI Views such as Single Select, Multi Select, Checkbox Group, Radio Group always call the List Item Service when configured with Items from Service on page load. These views also offer methods such as setServiceInputData and reloadServiceI...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Show last 6 chars of OAUTH token ID in Admin->Account Information -> Blueworks Live API page

When managing OAUTH tokens, the admin can only see the name and date of the token. It would be very helpful if the last 6(?) characters of the token ID was displayed so that an unambiguous ID of a specific token can be made
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Getting BPM application or toolkit snapshot validation errors and warnings from scripting command

Currently it is possible to view Process Application or Toolkit validation errors from classic Workflow Center Console, as shown in the product Knowledge Center: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS8JB4_20.x/com.ibm.wbpm.admin.doc/topics...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BWL Process App Notification Platform

Enhance Process App work notifications to include MS Teams and Slack messages rather than just emails to notify users of assigned work from a Process App checklist or workflow.
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Blueprint Work History visible for everybody

Only the account Admin can see the Work History of all Blueprints, while the Editor can only see the Work History of these Blueprints that contain Processes launched by him. It there are Processes launched by any other Editor, in the Work History ...
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration