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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).


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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:

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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,

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  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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Enable all library items movement in copy wizard from one track to another

Currently, when trying to copy artifacts from one track to another, some artifacts are not visible ("Service Flows", "Client-Side Human Service" and perhaps more) as a standalone artifacts and they can't be migrated on their own. I suggest that al...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add the user role as an input to the service cache

the current caching mechanism in BAW is not designed to take the user's roles into account when serving cached data. The caching mechanism uses only the service's input data as index for cached data. Our business requires the caching mechanism to ...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

When a DCDesktop panel opens up, the cursor should land on a particular field consistently.

The customer desires consistency as far as the cursor landing in a particular field each time a DCDesktop panel is opened.
over 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Allow custom "tw" client side properties

Support case: TS002069687 Currently, IBM BPM 8.5.7 CF2016.12 and IBM BAW 18.0.0.1 support the following: tw.CSHSPresenter = {...} Then in each diagram step it may be possible to use the code tw.CSHSPresenter.init(); without increasing the security...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Change the default names used for the Request+Response+Error Class types in the RES generated HTDS services

If the JAVA XOM of your Operational Decison Manager project contains a class named Request or Response or Error then the definition of that class will be overwritten if you generate the OpenAPI/JSON file for the rule service deployed in the RES. ...
almost 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Multiple pools

We should have the ability to create multiple pools connected via message connections (dotted line).
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Allow Numbering and Analysis at Same Time

The process diagram functionality does not allow you to show the analysis and numbering at the same time. I would like to be able to keep the numbering while showing the analysis
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Expose event (either intermediate or attached) implementation for REST API call

Using rest API is a more common way to get the process implementation. Currently, IBM supports the process model and process visual model API to get the process implementation but they don't include the event implementation (e.g: interrupt option ...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Guides for decision center webhook notifications other than Slack

You have a guide for setting up decision center notifications using Slack and Node.js. This is not suitable for all clients though. Many companies use Teams and Outlook, and there is no mention of how to set up these. You provide the Slack folder ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Guides for decision center webhook notifications other than Slack

You have a guide for setting up decision center notifications using Slack and Node.js. This is not suitable for all clients though. Many companies use Teams and Outlook, and there is no mention of how to set up these. You provide the Slack folder ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration