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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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SnapShot Version in the Export

Would like to have an indicator on the export what user saved snapshot is reflected in the export.
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

configure syntax coloration on BAL rules/Decision tables

Developpers using dark theme complain not being able to read rules. It would be nice to be able to configure the colors of bal constructs, as it is already possible to do with IRL editor
over 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 3 Future consideration

Default the home page of BPMoC's new portal design to the production tab

In our BPMoC environment, we have been upgraded to a new portal that now has 3 different tabs depending on which environments you have access to (Development, Test, Production). By default, the page always defaults to the first one that is availab...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Ref: TS001213733: Attachment Download Issue in ICN SAP (RTC 101014)

Ref: TS001213733 Problem Details . Product or Service: Content Navigator 3.0.0 Component ID: ISCONTNAV . Operating System: Linux . Problem title Attachment Download Issue in ICN SAP . Problem description and business impact We are getting an error...
over 5 years ago in Content Collector for SAP 2 Future consideration

Add the equivalent of "Find rule dependencies" menu to the ruleflows

When a user mkes a right click on a rule, a menu "Find rule Dependencies" is available and enables the user to look for ruleflows which may select this rule. Would it be possible to get the same feature for the ruleflows, ie. "find ruleflows which...
over 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Two Really Important Blueworks Suggestions

At The ERIE we are currently leveraging blueworks for advanced process design based on BPM best practice and additional best practices we've developed from IBM process ninja sessions. From my perspective, when all capabilities are used the right w...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

BPM role-based access control policy report

In order to review quarterly user access reviews Business wants to receive Customer Management Group report.
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Query to look-up ruleflows for their definition (rule selection, flow, etc.)

Queries in ODM do not support selecting rule all artifacts that are used within a ruleflow definition (rule selection within the tasks, flow that uses variables). Also the selection of ruleflows that include in their definition a specified rule pa...
about 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Need a Way to purge scheduled UCA Jobs that are created due to looping in a fail UCA.

FernandoTorres (IBM)14 Nov 2018 11:41 AMHello Daniel, that is true. UCA's will not be associated with any instances, so deleting instances will do nothing. Also, if these are just UCA's, unfortunately, the tool in the Process Admin Console does on...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Request support for dynamic port connection to SQL Server

In discussion between our integrator BP3 and Automation Anywhere it was determined that AA RPA Control Room requires a static port to connect to SQL Server. Our company's policy does NOT allow static ports for SQL and the DBA manager is rejecting ...
about 6 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Future consideration