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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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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

Functionality to delete User Groups in archive

User groups are created as per the business requirement to have the control on access level of the space content. If the user group is no longer required, we are able to archive the user group. However, there is no option to delete the user group ...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 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

Allow custom "tw" client side properties

Support case: TS002069687 Currently, IBM BPM 8.5.7 CF2016.12 and IBM BAW 18.0.0.1 support the following: tw.CSHSPresenter = {...} Then in each diagram step it may be possible to use the code tw.CSHSPresenter.init(); without increasing the security...
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

Allow deleting credentials even if they are on inactive schedules

I opened a support case with this issue number TS008442792 and they were instructed to open a new idea here. The problem is that Control Center RPA does not delete credentials EVEN WHEN IT IS ONLY ON INACTIVE SCHEDULES. If the credential is on an ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Ability to Pin Folders to the Start Page

If like me, you have bot scripts saved in many different local folders, it makes it slow difficult to find bots you have worked on in the past. So it would be great to be able to pin a folders to the Start Page so you can quickly find the correct ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Data from the process app included in the reports

Process app can be launched for any blueprint, but to check the information included in the process app (who sent it, when it was sent, who was recipient) any user need to click the View Work History of a given blueprint. It`s a big limitation and...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Allow Numbering and Analysis at Same Time

The process diagram functionality does not allow you to show the analysis and numbering at the same time. I would like to be able to keep the numbering while showing the analysis
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Support to apply a custom skin to the UI to match customers CI

Like in IBM Content Navigator, support the ability to add custom skins to the complete UI to match customers CI settings for logos, colors, fonts, etc.
over 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Future consideration