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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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Expand / Shrink - Activity Box and Annotation Box

Activity box and Annotation box are in fixed size now in BWL. We have received many requirements now to expand or shrink the activity and annotation box based on the content.For small content, the boxes seems very big and for large content, these ...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Inset Image option in Process(white) Space

In BWL we can add images in Documentation or attachments only. Now we have requirements to add/insert any image in the white space. It will be helpful when we can insert any image in the process diagram space.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 6 Not under consideration

Open multi artifacts in web PD

Open multiple artifact in the same time
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under 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

Decision table has columns that I want to exclude from being considered as conditions (to be for viewed only and not to be included in the code).

Decision table has columns that I want to exclude from being considered as conditions (to be for viewed only and not to be included in the code). Is there any kind of "ignore" option/setting so that during rules execution time it wont consider as ...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 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
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Zoom feature in Designer panel to use smaller text

Zoom feature in Designer panel to use smaller text
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Default setting on script level for timeout on UI commands

• Default setting (on script level?) for timeout on UI activities – and 5 seconds is also too short as default
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists