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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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Add row to the table with no side effects like onChange event triggered without a reason

This is a request to simply the adding of rows to a table without the triggering of the onChange event without a reason For a simple use case where a data needs to be added to a table, you need: * a temporary variable to copy the content of the ta...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Future consideration

Personal information can be automatically read from the LDAP

Now, use 'edit profile' in the Porcess Portal to complete user information, including email. In fact, the user information comes from LDAP. It is suggested that IBM can automatically synchronize these from LDAP without modification. If you want to...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Put Text on Gateways in Front of the Arrows

The text on the gateways is always behind the arrow and can be difficult to read. You need to adjust the wording a bit to get it to show more clearly, or move the arrows so there is no arrow coming out from the bottom of the gateway. The latter is...
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 6 Future consideration

Export to Word include references in glossary section

When I export a process map to WordI want to have the glossary section to output references that are stored with the glossary itemSo that the document can be used to access external references by stakeholders e.g. regulators, auditors.
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Detect whether deprecated feature is used and then show in “Validation Errors" in Web PD

The use of deprecated feature may cause some production issue. We would like to highlight the deprecated feature and detect whether deprecated feature is used in BPM app (especially after upgrading/migration) and then show it in “Validation Errors...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Changing Context Root of Case Manager Components, such as ICMClient

Currently we are not able to change ICMClient context root. The context root is hardcoded in some java scripts. If we change the context root in WAS console, the hardcoded context root in the javascripts won't be changed and then Case Manager appl...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

userid/password that connects to a CMIS server are stored using AES encryption with hard-coded key in an environment variable

The userid and password of a system account that connects to a CMIS server are stored using AES encryption with hard-coded key in an environment variable. Remmendard Actions from HSBC Security team: Secure storage of cryptogrphic secrets; (Separat...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BO Changes and instance migration

When BO properties are deleted/renamed in-flight instance migration results in failures/error due to mismatch in properties in task/instance context data and the BO definition in the target snapshot version. Proposal - log the mismatch as a warnin...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Create Ability to control permissions related to BWL Glossary

Requesting a feature that allows BWL Admins to dictate which account users can create new Glossary values. Currently Contributors/Editors can type in items, and if there are typos or extra spaces, it will create two separate terms. We are requesti...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Remove this issue on future versions.. Cannot attach

I often come across with this error: Cannot attach 'main.wal' to debugger 'net.pipe://localhost/debugger/2/6904/1' I have this message right after an system exception while debugging. After that error it cannot be ran anything, until you close and...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Is a defect