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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

All ideas

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Integrate the open source instant messaging system to receive message reminders of process tasks

It is hoped that IBM can integrate an open source instant messaging system to receive message reminders from process tasks. For example integrating https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse It is hoped that electronic form functions (such as IBM Forms...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Better layout of the BPMN scheme

I suggest a minor change that would allow for a better layout of the PDF printout of the schema. When exporting Blueprint to PDF, each swimlane is extended to the width of the text in the 'Participant' data. If the 'Participant' text is long the s...
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Option required to include " Date" property along with Calendar option under Custom Process Properties

In Blue works live, we have options to include new text & number properties. How ever, we do not have option to include date properties (with calendar option). This data is essential for almost all the diagrams as we capture these details for ...
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Add ActivityID to Process Items Tab of Export

In the Excel export, add the activityID to the Process Items tab. Alternatively, at least make the same capability available in an API.
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Enhance the versioning control - show differences between .WAL versions

IBM RPA to provide the possibility to differentiate between script versions in the Studio application. This would allow the user to understand the difference between two script versions before the script is published, like a more robust version co...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Generic command to execute all languages supported by IBM RPA

Nowadays, IBM RPA supports execution of languages like Javascript, VBScript, C#, WScript and Wal. The idea is to create a new command with Inputs and Outputs on its interface that can run any of those languages, considering: - It can run code as p...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Visualization improvements in Call Graph section on IBM RPA Studio

The Call Graph section is useful for checking the flow that your code developed on Studio is following. Although, if you have a very extensive script, it's hard to visualize the section and have a complete understanding of the flow mentioned befor...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Stop search screen reset on timeout

When a user times out in FileNet Navigator the screen is reset and all searches are results are lost and have to be reentered. This did Not happen when we were in Content Manager on prem. We are requesting that the search screen and results are un...
almost 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

We need a separate deploy role for ODM or access controls to enable/disable performing deploy operation for existing roles

Perform deploy needs the administrator role today. But the administrator role gives full access to all the projects. So we need access controls to enable/disable deploy operation for application roles or provide a deployment role to map users who ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

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