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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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Space Documentation visible for Viewer

The description in "Space Details" (visible for all other roles) should be also visible for role "Viewer".
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Display of metadata values in PPT extract.

Currently the PPT extract from BWL process map lists only the below four metadata values:Participants, Inputs, Outputs, and ProblemsWe would require other metadata values also like Systems, Control points to be included in the list. We would want ...
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Allowing copying and pasting of multiple images from outside BWL

System: Blueworks Live, component: Process Documentation It is impossible to copy and paste multiple images (png. or jpg. format) from outside of BWL (MS Word, PowerPoint, Snipping Tool). When selecting ONE image using CTRL+C (or Copy button) and ...
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

ProcessPortal default value for "items per page"

Please add an option for ProcessPortal users to save a default value for "items per page".Case TS001092549
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

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...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Admin view of ALL work - not just work in my queue

I'm admin for Global Sales Incentives Account. We use processes to manage some approval requests. For example, if a process drafted in the construction space needs to replace a now-dated process which is currently in the Production space, a user w...
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Divide attachment

Hi team, When I map process on IBM BW, I need to upload and review some documents at Attachment tab on IBM BW. However, there are many files, it makes me crazy when I look for some files there.So I suggest that I can sort as name and type of file ...
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Change default color of IBM BW

Hi team, Ive learnt that IBM BW tool can support BPMN 2.0 but in fact, I find many notations missing such as manual task, message task and we have to use different color (manual task = yellow color, message task= orange color) for these tasks.Besi...
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Fix the resume behavior in Process Inspector

In our BPM solution, we are using Process Inspector to manage the instance and handle the failed instances. The failed instances are visible in PI and we want to resume the instances from there.But PI is not able to resume all the failed instances...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Any additional function in utility jars will not be available if not creating new service flow on WebPD

On WebPD, any additional function in same utility jars will not be available if not creating new service flow on WebPD. WebPD works different from Process Designer from this perspective. The WebPD working way does not reasonable and effective. It ...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration