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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...

All ideas

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Add SIPOC information as an exportable format

A common communication tool for Six Sigma process improvement project is a SIPOC (suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, and customers). This information is summarized in the View Process Summary menu option. We would like this to be a standard expo...
about 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Use Zoom Slider to Zoom In as Well as Out

Start Zoom slider in middle rather than to far right to allow zooming further in as well as all the way out. If browser zoom is used, everything is made larger including BwL header & footer which takes up needless additional space. Only proces...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Improve UX with hotkeys (Studio)

Improve the user experience by adding support for hotkeys configurations. Also, improve the existent hotkeys and add new ones to refine the development experience.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Support for embedded script documentation within Studio

Add support for embedded WAL script documentation using special comments. Idealized as walscriptdoc, the idea is that specific comments can be used as the script's documentation. Walscriptdoc considers documenting two main structures: the main sub...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Not under consideration

IBM RPA with AA to work with file modification triggers and network drive files

When using the file modification triggers and network drive mapped files, executions do not reflect the amount modifications done in the file (the Windows NTFS API returns 3 modifications). For example, one modification is done, and this modificat...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 0 Planned for future release

Add default OCR setting to Studio

when we use OCR-related commands,We have to select the engine and language each time. Since each user basically uses the same engine and language, this task seems very complicated. Therefore, it would be easier to use the tool if there had opti...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Change collections treatment in TestSuites Output Excel Report, from columns to rows

When using Decision Runner in Decision Center, there are business scenarios where the XOM has a collection of objects as the input and output. When a testsuite is executed, we have the ability to create an output Excel file report which compares t...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Future consideration

Add support for .heic formatted files to the Navigator viewer

We have users who are storing photos from their IOS devices in their native format which is: image/heic, image/heif Can the virtual viewer support that format? They do open in Windows Photo Viewer.
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 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
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Add DayOfTheWeek to the DateTime properties

This idea is to add a way for IBM RPA to provide the day of the week based on a data or datetime variable. Currently the properties for the datetime variable in IBM RPA give you: Hour, Minute, Second, Milliesecond, TimeOfDay, Year. Having DayOfWee...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration