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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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Allow arrow navigation in DC Desktop Verify treeview

Using arrow keys to navigate from page to page the the treeview works fine in Datacap Desktop with a scan step, but it doesn't work in a Verify step. In Verify, the focus shifts to fields in the field pane and the treeview and the arrow keys no lo...
over 3 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Drag Endpoint onto Sub-process

Cannot drag an endpoint on top of a sub-process to draw the line.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Move Gateway Label

Want to be able to move label for gateways. Cannot move it at all.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

More attach points on gateways

Want more attach points on the gateway. Currently only have 4, with at least one used for the input.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Move activity label in any direction

Want to be able to move label anywhere. Currently can only move horizontally or vertically, but not both.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Out of the Box, Scalable, Lightweight (like value editor) Multilevel (Parent-Child) Dynamic Domain Support

We want ODM to provide an option to simply define multilevel data filters with dynamic data configuration. Today dynamic domain creates bom class which doesn't scale when we have a large number of entries, and also to extend it for two-level (pare...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Future consideration

Text Annotation Using Rich Text Formatting

The addition of Text Annotation is greatly appreciated and allowing rich text formatting would make it much more useful. (You give a mouse a cookie...)
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

ODM on Cloud: Aggregate RES report of ruleapps

Executive IT requires a report of the number of requests per decision service in Production. A report similar to the 1 month metrics available in Production Rule Execution Server Consolidated Report.
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Request to view and change the business data for the linked and sub Processes scope via the Process Inspector

While trying to update the Data variables. We don't see all the data variables in the Process Inspector console. Like for example there is a field for EMails to be sent in the environment variable but this cant be seen under the Edit Data for this...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to audit code changes in BAW.

We need to be able to trace 1. Who has changed the source code? 2. What time does the change occurred? 3. What has changed? That means every change that is made in the source code must be linked to an individual.This support does exist in Eclipse-...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration