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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 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
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...

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Reuse Attachements

When adding attachments to an Activity box, the attachment is stored in File Management. If someone wants to associate that same attachment to another Activity box then they must upload and reattach the same document again. Instead, what should ha...
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

See cumulative metrics around a role/name

Ability to see all properties around a role in one screen. E.g. What is the total time that the Account Payable clerk spends on tasks across ALL processes. This will allow the customer to easily identify under or over-utilisation in the organisation.
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Executive dashboard with user definable properties tracking

Executive dashboards with all key properties and its numbers in one screen.
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Enhance Collaboration by Tagging Users in Comments, Posts, etc.

Requesting advancement of BWL's collaboration features through ability to tag other users in Comments and Posts. In other words, requesting ability to comment "at" another user or post "at" multiple users. Then, that specific user would receive no...
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

zero downtime patching

it is now critical that downtime for upgrades or patches is either scheduled within a tighter timeframe or done away with altogether, and done to a timescale that is specific and helpful to the United Kingdom
about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

there are duplicated verbalization in the same BOM class, only warning message

In case there are duplicated verbalization in the same BOM class, only warning message is reported when the duplicated phrase is used in an action phrase. It is difficult to locate the duplicated verbalization as warning messages tend to be ignore...
over 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 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

Enable the Swimlanes on both sides of the process map for better scrolling

When the process map is too large and needs scrolling from left to right, it could be very useful to have the swimlanes on both sides so we know who the action lies with in the process.
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Word-Wrap Participants in Swim Lanes

Long participant names get truncated in screen views of a process map and are fully presented in printouts. For printouts, it creates challenges because the swimlane height is expanded even if it is only one activity deep. We would like it to word...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

BWL to support creation of Ad-Hoc (Case) tasks

Several clients (notably Belastingdienst, the Dutch Tax Authority) have requested that BWL provides support to model Ad-hoc tasks (Case Style).
almost 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration