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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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Enable Localization in Instance Names and Task Names

Enable Localization in Instance Names and Task Names. We have a requirement where french task names should be displayed to french users and English task names to be displayed to English users. However IBM BPM does not allow localization for instan...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM BPM Teams Enhancement

IBM BPM 'Teams' cannot be shared easily across multiple process applications unlike groups (which got deprecated ~IBM BPM v8.0 timeline. These Teams unlike groups , are tied to snapshots and have unique db record for each snapshot they are belong ...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Allow Data Export Control in IBM BPM 8.6 to have custom sorting preferences while exporting.

The Data Export coach view in IBM BPM does not allow custom sorting preference while exporting. When we discussed the issue with SWAT Team, they confirmed that this functionality is not available at the moment and they suggested us to raise an RFE...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Select All Control in Spark UI Table should be configurable for Selecting records either only on Page or All records

Select All Control in Spark UI Table should be configurable for Selecting records either only on Page or All records.
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Unify the two validation frameworks in BPM

We are using BPM 8.6.0 and would like to have a tighter coupling of the BPM validation framework, tw.system.coachValidation, together with new client-side validation, bpmext.ui.setValid().Currently, BPM validation framework, tw.system.coachValidat...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Helper function to clear all validations in coach

We are using BPM 8.6.0 and would like to have a helper function to clear all the validations in the coach, something like bpmext.ui.clearInvalidViews() or bpmext.ui.resetInvalidViews() Currently, there is no simple way to do it. We need to use the...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Automate Client Side & Heritage Human service using REST/Java/TW Javascript API

Automate Client Side & Heritage Human service using REST/Java/TW Javascript API
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Change Order of Process Links

Be able to change order of the process links when linking to more than one process.
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Show Number of Results

Show number of results when clicking on a tag. Number of results are only shown when a search in processes for a term is done.
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

View Changeability in Spaces

Allow ability to change view of Spaces to be listed in different ways (list view, detail view, etc.)
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration