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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 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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Allow to change Entry Template during check-in

We currently use one Entry Template per document class for adding documents to a case, but once the user defines the Entry Template, it is locked in place upon document creation. If the user then wants to change the class of the document, he can n...
almost 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

Case Manager 5.3.3 Not updating security on deployment

When a case manager solution has users/permissions added to the role, and the security manifest is applied to the solution, these roles are not getting added/removed to/from the folder in the target object store : Root Folder\IBM Case Manager\Solu...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Upgrade Integration Designer Eclipse platform to enable support for plugins like Git, Maven, Gradle, Spring...

I was considering creating PMR cause it's serious blocker for modern development. We use AdvancedOnly deployment for running large BPEL solution with lots of Java code. IID Eclipse platform is now ancient Eclipse 3.6.3 (released 2011) and that mea...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

Add Execution Evaluator to Web PD

Execution Evaluator is currently available in the Desktop Process Designer but has been deprecated in Web Designer. With the release of BAW, Desktop Process Designer is going away with no replacement for the Execution Evaluator.
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Add "No Selection" item to Single Select when Using Items from Service

We are looking for a way to add a "No Selection" item to the beginning of a List Items Service used by UI elements such as Single Select when "Item lookup mode" is "Items from Service" Example: We have a List Items service that returns a list of u...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Selecting a later page in "Work" tab results in many API calls to reach that page.

When looking at the "Work" tab in Case Client, directly choosing a page other than the first one results in an ever-increasing number of API calls to the MergedWorklistService. The code is effectively calling “nextPage” until the desired page is r...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Ability to update custom process properties via APIs

The OpenPages team wants to be able to publish key risk and control information into Blueworks Live using the REST APIs. Only a retrieve API is available for ProcessData.
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Delivered

Work with complex data types for input/output API parameters

There are business cases where you need to work with complex data types like Data Tables when it comes to input/output API parameters. The idea is to add some data types to that mechanism, considering that we only support the following nowadays: D...
9 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

JMS MQ Support in Workflow Container

We need to define JMS MQ artifacts for our process application (like it was possible in traditional installation pattern). The workflow-server image useswebProfile7, as we checked through command featureManager featureList, it does not contain fea...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

IBM BPM - Saved Search Filter on multiple values

In the saved search we want to see the tasks from two different Process Apps. Is this possible by creating a Saved Search filter from the portal. The screenshot is for 1 process app. I want to do it for 2 process apps (Please refer attached)
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered