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,

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...
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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Enhanced support for Objects as per BPMN 2.0 Specifications

It would be ideal if IBM Addresses the known BPMN 2.0 Compliance shortcomings as listed out on the support website https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS2MKC/com.ibm.bwl.doc/topics/bpmn_import_map.html For Reference the BPMN 2.0 Specificat...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Ability to merge change activities in the Business Console UI without having to create a 3rd activity.

Multiple activities authoring is supported in Decision Center. When 1st activity is completed, and 2nd open activity is trying to update table that was change earlier (1st activity) - source management correctly locks it. This is expected behavior...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Configurable text / support link in notification mails

Task notification mails currently have the following line included at the end of the mail:'Please do not respond to this message. This mailbox is not monitored. If you have questions about this message, please contact Blueworks Live Support' (with...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Have a field to inform the OCR DPI

When working with PDF data extraction, using OCR, the default DPI value of the "Get PDF Region Text" command is 110, leaving the image very small, reducing the accuracy of the result. Having a field where I can easily change this number and have I...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Future consideration

commit parameters for arsdoc commands

add parameters similar to ARS_DB_DOC_LOAD_COMMIT_CNT=3000 ARS_DB_DOC_UNLOAD_COMMIT_CNT=3000 that is invoked when arsdoc remove implied holds or arsdoc delete commands are issued? We have a daily process that releases many holds and may delete many...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Lotus Notes Integration

Integration of IBM RPA with Lotus Notes Lotus Notes database/application integration is a key feature for many of our current bots that use Blue Prism Notes is still a commonly used application for many repetitive, manual internal processes
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Improved credential control

We are in the process of migrating a client and your security team has raised the point about the IBM RPA where all vault credentials are available to all users and scripts. They requested an improvement in the tool so that each credential is lin...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Screen Recording Using Secondary Monitor

Issue reported by user fertig@us.ibm.com IRNF-20 I normally work with my Win10 Laptop and an extra monitor. When I tried to execute the "Start recorder" function in IBM RPA Studio, the recorder would start, and I was able to find the Windows appli...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Is a defect

request for the process restart with same process instance ID and last activity step

System: IBM BPM AdvancedActor: User needing new feature Description : The Customer want to process restart with same process id, last activity step.(the client do process restart for terminated process instance by mistake or circumstances.) becaus...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Automatically expand the visible script window when clicking into it (events, pre/post, etc.)

Currently a developer has 2 ways to see code not visible in a code window 1. Scroll inside the small 3 lines window (events) or the 10 line windows for pre/post script windows 2. click the up arrow which expands the window to 18 lines. Problems wi...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

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