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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 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

All ideas

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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

Video capture and voice over capabilities for the Playback Mode

It would be nice to have the capabilities of recording or capturing the flow in the Playback mode. Also, it would be nice to be able to record a voice over as well for the flows captured.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Add identifier to IP address ranges

We have many IP address ranges defined, and with the new ones to support Cloudflare it is increasingly difficult to validate, amend and maintain them. Please provide a new filed for each range that allows us to store and identifier/name by each ra...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 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...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Need a downgrading process

We do have an upgrading process for PM and TM:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/process-mining/1.14.1?topic=environments-upgrading-process-mining However, for business reasons, such as a function disabled/changed in the new version, a client may want to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

Expose event (either intermediate or attached) implementation for REST API call

Using rest API is a more common way to get the process implementation. Currently, IBM supports the process model and process visual model API to get the process implementation but they don't include the event implementation (e.g: interrupt option ...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Hiding User Profile options

When a user is editing his profile he gets a list of attributes displayed even if they are not available.We are not using "IBM Connections notification" but the option gets displayed in the user profile and would like to hide this for the users.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to temporarily suspend IP address lockdown without losing configuration

At present IP address lockdown has no memory; i.e. if you temporarily switch it off for what ever reason you lose all the settings and need to retype them instead of just switching back on.
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Support visibility concept for TK artifacts

Today all artifacts in Toolkits are public and can be re-used from other TKs or PAs that reference the TK.Yet common practice should be to structure the content of a TK in artifacts that are exposed and can be re-used and artifacts that are intern...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM BAW to support Java11

Hi IBM Team, As per our Citi requirements BAW product has to be run on Java11. When we checked with vendor support on this. They have confirmed as "At this point, there are no plans for IBM BAW to support Java 11. " We Citi CATE Engineering team r...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration