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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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Filter users on name or email address when removing them from user groups

When removing users from a user group, they are presented alphabetically by 'public' user name. To find a specific user can be very challenging as:- there is no filter capability- there are three lists, alpha sorted by license type.- users can (an...
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Add bulk task reassign to REST API

The BPM REST API currently allows the reassignment of a single task, but is lacking a bulk task reassign. Customers wanting to reassign multiple tasks via the REST API need to loop over the list and call the API for each singe task. The task API (...
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide a Open API (aka Swagger File) for ALL BlueWorks Live REST APIs, including get OAuth token

Currently tools such as IBM Business Automation Workflow cannot directly call BWL APIs as there are no accurate and comprehensive Swagger files. This makes it very difficult to build a automated QA process for BWL blueprints.
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Client is request for MFA support for IBM RPA application

Client is requesting to enhance the security of the IBM RPA application, and is requesting the implementation of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) support to continue using the RPA product. This feature will provide an additional layer of security...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

Process Variants

Some process variants are acceptable variants (e.g. across countries, brands, severity or scale of spending or risk etc...) which may change how and by whom a process is executed. To circumvent this, I would have to duplicate the current process w...
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Cleanup tool time frame by project

The cleanup tool here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/odm/9.0.0?topic=database-cleaning-up-repository allows specifying a time window of artifacts to keep vs purge. However, the window applies to the whole of Decision Center. We have rule projects for...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

enable ilog.rules.bom.annotations.VocabularyLabel annotation in ODM

The annotation ilog.rules.bom.annotations.VocabularyLabel seems to exist in ADS but not in ODM.it would be usefult to add it for xom pojos.
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Using canvas accelerators in private repos

It'd be nice can use private repos to hosts custom accelerators; it's important for companies that cannot create public repos in theirs github enterprise accounts.
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Planned for future release

Nested toolkit dependency upgrade

In multi level nesting of toolkits making a change in the leaf toolkit requires an upgrade of all dependency toolkits. The process of doing this is extremely tedious for 2 reasons:1) Each toolkit at each level needs to be opened upgraded and new s...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Coach View previews in the Process Designer should resolve variables

The web Process Designer incorporates preview files to improve the WYSIWYG view of the Coach layout. However, placing a coach view in a wrapper complicates the ability of the preview to work correctly. If a configuration option is promoted to the ...
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration