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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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The CASE addition allows multiple people to develop functions at the same time.

It is hoped that the same CASE can be added to allow different people to develop different "case types" and improve the efficiency of CASE development.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add "Case Type" copy function in CASE

When developing CASE in BAW, it is hoped that the existing "case type" can be copied, so that developers can modify and use the copied "case type".
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Lock the process and case being edited

When multiple users of a process or case have editing permission, and one user is editing, it should be displayed as "locked" on the process or case to prompt other users that the process or case is being edited by someone. When the same user edit...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Certify and support Datacap Desktop as a hosted application on Citrix Server

We have users all over the world. They all use Citrix Workspace to access many applications which also includes our Datacap Desktop implementation. Our Citrix Servers farm is hosted in AWS next to our Datacap Taskmaster and Rulerunner servers, Fil...
almost 3 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Automatic separation of BAW business data

At present, we know that in BAW process design, business data and process need to be separated. That is, if the business data is saved in BAW, it will be cleared. Therefore, it is necessary to write the business data to the business database throu...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow precision values for Custom numeric dropdown

IBM Blueworks live allows users to define a custom numeric property . However there is no specification on the precision of the property . Currently the platform allows users to enter 9 digit long number. We have a business requirement that needs...
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Autogen email

When an admin adds a user to BWL - autogen email puts the original names in the email asking them to contact that individual for issues or if their invitation link has expired. User reaches out for troubleshooting to the "from" admin in the origin...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Close document viewer if it is being opened in a different window

Business Users are viewing documents from a case and updating properties on a case details page based on document content. When a case is closed and a new case is opened, documents from previous case are still opened in another popup. There are hi...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration